Passmore Edwards Library
PASSMORE EDWARDS LIBRARY, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380225
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Passmore Edwards Library
- Statutory Address:
- PASSMORE EDWARDS LIBRARY, NORTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380225
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Passmore Edwards Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- PASSMORE EDWARDS LIBRARY, NORTH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- PASSMORE EDWARDS LIBRARY, STIRLING ROAD
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:
- PASSMORE EDWARDS LIBRARY, NORTH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- PASSMORE EDWARDS LIBRARY, STIRLING ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Newham (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 40605 83144
Details
TQ 48 SW
251/4/10053
03-APR-00
STIRLING ROAD
Plaistow
(North side)
Passmore Edwards Library
NORTH STREET
Plaistow
(East side)
Passmore Edwards Library
II
Public Library. 1902 by Samuel Bridgman Russell for the benefactor Passmore Edwards. Stock London brick with red brick principal fronts laid in English bond with stone detailing; roofs clad with bituminous felt. Cruciform plan.
EXTERIOR: entrance front to west of one storey. Tripartite elevation defined by projecting canted piers with stone banding, each with one concave surface. Dado of glazed red tiles. Centre bay with high arched cornice with modillions under which is full-height projecting stone centrepiece containing doorway and an upper 3-light transomed window. Heavily rusticated quadrant surround. Moulded panel over door with inscription: PASSMORE EDWARDS/PVBLIC LIBRARY. Triple keystone over upper window. Side bays each with 3 centre-hung one-light casements. Modillion cornice and low parapet with stone coping. Flat roof with central dome.
South and north fronts of similar design, with the centrepiece replaced by a single 3-light double transomed window set within a rusticated projecting surround.
INTERIOR: central glazed dome with cast-iron ribs carried on plain pendentives with a pulvinated string course with foliage carving. Pendentives drop to Corinthian entablatures supported on 4 panelled square piers, creating square secondary areas in the 4 corners with flat ceilings. Cruciform arms under segmental barrel vaults. Timber partitioning on south side added c. 1970, remainder of partitioning of 1989.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479952
- 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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