Carnegie Public Library is a Grade II listed building in the Hyndburn local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1984. Library. 2 related planning applications.
Carnegie Public Library
- WRENN ID
- lost-groin-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hyndburn
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1984
- Type
- Library
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ACCRINGTON ST. JAMES STREET SD 72 NE 7/32 Carnegie Public Library - GV II
Public library, 1906-8, by W.J. Newton. Ashlar facade (coursed sandstone side wall), slate roof with 2 ventilators on the ridge. Five bays and 2 storeys, in Renaissance style; channelled rustication to ground floor, dentilled string course, Corinthian pilastered 1st floor, dentilled cornice, balustraded parapet. Door at right hand side has keystone with face of Shakespeare, Ionic porch with polished columns. Four rectangular windows at ground floor with figured keystones (Dante, Milton etc.); five round-headed windows at 1st floor, above balustrade which is false except over porch. Frieze lettered "CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY". Interior: large stairlight with stained glass in Art Nouveau style, lettered "KNOWLEDGE IS POWER" "A LIGHT TO GUIDE" (etc.) and incorporating Accrington Corporation Coat of Arms with motto "INDUSTRY AND PRUDENCE CONQUER". (Item adjoins Mechanics Institution, q.v.)
Listing NGR: SD7591928522
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