St Barnabas Library

St Barnabas Library is a public library built in 1937, designed by Symington, Prince & Pike. The structure is made of reinforced concrete with red brick cladding and features a brick plinth. It is designed in the Moderne style and is a single storey building with a tall circular clerestorey central hall. The entrance, located on French Street, has a recessed curved entrance with a projecting porch. On either side of the entrance are single 3-light cross casements, while the outer projecting wings have strips of narrow windows, each with 3 casements. The set-back rotunda includes very tall casement windows. The front facing St Barnabas Road has a central door flanked by strips of 2 casements on either side. To the right, there is a tall circular stack from the former boiler room. All corners of the building are curved, and the walls are topped with concrete coping. The interior retains original built-in bookshelves, doors, stepped coving, banded columns, and glazed roof lights.