Wiltshire County Library

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

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ST9970 NEW ROAD 755-1/5/110 (East side) 08/07/76 Wiltshire County Library

II

Library. c1904. Donated by Andrew Carnegie. Coursed, squared limestone rubble, limestone dressings, with slate hipped roof.

Single-depth plan with rear wing. Eclectic Tudor and Jacobean Revival style. Single storey; 2-window range. Divided by octagonal panelled pilasters to onion finials, with a plinth, cornice and parapet with curved sunken cusped panels. A narrow right-hand bay, with the entrance to the left flanked by buttresses on foliate carved corbels and raised finials, to a round-arched entrance with raised voussoirs, foliate carved spandrels, and recessed 2-leaf door; a panel above with PUBLIC LIBRARY in raised letters, and a cartouche in the gable with Wiltshire coat of arms, and winged cupid. 3-light stone-mullioned and transomed ovolo-moulded cross windows with 9-pane top windows. Crested ridge with end finials. Rear 5-bay range has lunettes. INTERIOR: details include an arch-braced truss roof.

Listing NGR: ST9979770892

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1485 IOE Records taken by David Nunn; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr David Nunn. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project