Public Library Young Gallery

CHIPPER LANE 1. 1594 (North Side) Public Library & Young Gallery SU 1430 SW 1/434 II 2. Library 1904 by A C Bothams, the adjoining Young Gallery by Mr Blount 1910-13. The Library is free Cotswold Tudor-Jacobean. 3 storeys, ashlar. Centre recessed between 2 slightly projecting gabled bays, that to right wider. Moulded copings to gables. Crenellated parapet between with 4 centred cusped arched openings. Quatrefoil panelling in stone band below. Strings across 2nd floor windows and stepped up over ground floor ones. Large stone mullioned, transomed window on ground floor with 4 centred arches to lights. Art Nouveau leaded panes. Entrance has 4 centred arch with carved spandrels, 3 lights over with drip mould stepped up over all. The gallery to left has string carried over from Library, moulded coping to parapet. Ashlar front slightly lower than Library, flanked by slender half octagon turrets rising above parapet, with minature crenella- tion to caps. Below parapet (approximately at 2nd floor level) a large stone panel, contained by the turrets. Good freely carved relief of roses. In middle of wall a full width 6 light stone mullioned and transomed window, the upper lights blind. Panel below window, resting on plinth, with dedicatory inscription. Above the window runs a shallow coved cornice decorated with rosettes and fleur de lys, miniature crenellation. Picturesque group.

Listing NGR: SU1443130162