Stoke Newington Library
STOKE NEWINGTON LIBRARY, 186, STOKE NEWINGTON CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1390563
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-2003
- Statutory Address:
- STOKE NEWINGTON LIBRARY, 186, STOKE NEWINGTON CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1390563
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-2003
- Statutory Address 1:
- STOKE NEWINGTON LIBRARY, 186, STOKE NEWINGTON CHURCH STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- STOKE NEWINGTON LIBRARY, 186, STOKE NEWINGTON CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Hackney (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 32995 86484
Details
735/0/10133 STOKE NEWINGTON CHURCH STREET
15-AUG-03 186
Stoke Newington Library
GV II
Public Library. 1892 by Bridgman and Goss, extended 1904 by Goss with funding from Andrew Carnegie, and in 1922-3 by A.G. Porri. Red brick with stone dressings, tiled roof. 2 storeys.
EXTERIOR: Central 5-window range, inscribed 'PUBLIC LIBRARY' in first-floor band, flanked by 3-storey gabled wings, the ground floor with opening top-lights and blind boxes, the first floor with casements. Double panelled door to left with heavy stone porch and balustrade set on console brackets.
1922-3 extension to right houses the War Memorial Hall and present entrance. Double doors set within a rectangular surround below the borough arms and a shallow niche inscribed 'PRO PATRIA'; this set between pilasters carrying an open segmental pediment. This frontispiece terminates in a plinth with bronze wreaths flanking the dates 1914-18; similar composition on return elevation, beyond which flat pilasters and square metal ground-floor casements denote the 1904 work.
INTERIOR: The Memorial Hall has a marble floor and stone-faced walls with pilasters and entablature, alabaster panels inscribed with the borough's war dead, and a vaulted roof supporting an oval glazed dome with original hanging light. Entablature over doorway leading to library interior is inscribed 'ALL YE WHO PASS IN QUEST OF HAPPY HOURS, BEHOLD THE PRICE AT WHICH THESE HOURS WERE BOUGHT'.
HISTORY: 1904 extension including lecture hall and children's room were funded by Andrew Carnegie. Extension was opened October 1925 by Councillor C. Maude Eve. J.P.
Included as an early and good example of a borough library, which contains an exceptional war memorial hall.
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490511
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/11936
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/11945
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/247651
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/247632
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