Bowring Library
BOWRING LIBRARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240244
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Bowring Library
- Statutory Address:
- BOWRING LIBRARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240244
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Bowring Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOWRING LIBRARY
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:
- BOWRING LIBRARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Moretonhampstead
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 75375 86075
Details
This List Entry was subjected to a Minor Amendment on 15/12/2016
MORETONHAMPSTEAD
SX 7586
8/10000 Bowring Library
GV II
Library. 1901/2 by Silvanus Trevail. Snecked local stone with
richly-detailed terracotta dressings; slate roof; moulded
terracotta stacks, Double-depth plan with stairhall to front
right. Jacobethan style. 2 storeys and attic; symmetrical 4-
window front. Ovolo-moulded transomed cross windows, shorter to
ground-floor right and with splayed architraves to first floor.
Panels with relief lettering reading BOWRING LIBRARY set above
string course which is linked to tall pedimented doorcase with
enriched tympanum and obelisk finials set on short pilasters;
commemorative panel set above panelled door with moulded
segmental-arched architrave. First-floor windows framed by
corbelled pilasters with small Ionic capitals which are linked
by a string courses and are terminated by pinnacles with obelisk
finials; full gabled dormers with obelisk finials and graduated
3-light windows with glazing-bar casements. Gabled right-hand
return is treated in similar style.
Interior: retains all original joinery with Art Nouveau brass
details and substantial inner porch. Moulded cornices. Hall
with mosaic floor has open-well stair with turned balusters, lead
treads and ball finials to newels.
The library was a gift to the town by Sir Thomas Bowring, a
notable wool trader and benefactor.
Listing NGR: SX7537586075
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438381
- 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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