Spring Hill Library
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Spring Hill Library (Grid reference Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".) is a red brick and terracotta Victorian building in Ladywood, Birmingham, England.
Designed in 1891 by Frederick Martin[1] of Martin & Chamberlain with a Script error: No such module "convert". clock tower on the corner of Icknield Street and Spring Hill and opened on 7 January 1893, it now stands next to a roundabout and linked via a glazed atrium to a new (2010) Tesco superstore. The site was previously the location for the turnpike gate house for Icknield Street.[2]
Still in use as a Birmingham branch library, it is a Grade II* listed building.[3][4]
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The ceiling, with curved iron girders concealed (unusual for Martin & Chamberlain)
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References
- Birmingham Libraries – History of Spring Hill Library
- Spring Hill Architecture – article by Joe Holyoak 1974
- Pictures of Spring Hill Library in context with neighbouring buildings: Search for "Spring Hill Library" from Birmingham Images
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- Libraries in Birmingham, West Midlands
- Ladywood
- Public libraries in the West Midlands (county)
- Terracotta
- Library buildings completed in 1891
- 1891 establishments in England
- Grade II* listed buildings in the West Midlands (county)
- Gothic Revival architecture in the West Midlands (county)