Central Library and Grundy Art Gallery
CENTRAL LIBRARY AND GRUNDY ART GALLERY, QUEEN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072014
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Central Library and Grundy Art Gallery
- Statutory Address:
- CENTRAL LIBRARY AND GRUNDY ART GALLERY, QUEEN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072014
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Central Library and Grundy Art Gallery
- Statutory Address 1:
- CENTRAL LIBRARY AND GRUNDY ART GALLERY, QUEEN STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CENTRAL LIBRARY AND GRUNDY ART GALLERY, QUEEN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Blackpool (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 30771 36548
Details
SD 33 NW BLACKPOOL QUEEN STREET
2/19 Central Library and Grundy Art Gallery
II
Library and Art Gallery 1909-10, by Cullen, Lockhead and Brown. Red brick with stone dressings; in free Baroque style. Two storeys on corner site with facades to Abingdon Street and Queen Street. Each facade has 2 flanking pylons on stone plinths, with giant arch breaking the entablature, jambs of banded stone and brick, enclosing pedimented ground floor window and upper staircase window surmounted by a bullseye; between the pylons 4 round-headed windows with eared architraves and exaggerated keystones, between banded pilaster strips. Stone entablature; attic storey above with rectangular windows in architraves with keystones. Facades are hinged on an octagonal lead-roofed dome with urn finial, across which is carried a curved colonnade of coupled Ionic columns supporting an entablature and balustrade; central panel of frieze carries the words "Central Public Library". Art Gallery adjoining the Queen Street facade has banded quoins and entrance of coupled Ionic columns in antis and entablature with stone coping incorporating balustrade.
Listing NGR: SD3077136548
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183676
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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