Latitude: 53.395 / 53°23'41"N
Longitude: -2.9715 / 2°58'17"W
OS Eastings: 335494
OS Northings: 389123
OS Grid: SJ354891
Mapcode National: GBR 77S.6Z
Mapcode Global: WH877.BX7Q
Plus Code: 9C5V92VH+X9
Entry Name: Toxteth Public Library
Listing Date: 14 March 1975
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1359623
English Heritage Legacy ID: 359751
ID on this website: 101359623
Location: Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, L8
County: Liverpool
Electoral Ward/Division: Riverside
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Liverpool
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside
Church of England Parish: Toxteth St Philemon
Church of England Diocese: Liverpool
Tagged with: Public library Library building
SJ 3589 SW WINDSOR STREET L8
59/1368 Toxteth Public Library 14.3.75. - II
Library. 1902. T. Shelmerdine. Red brick and stone dressings, slate roof. 1 storey with attic to central 3 bays, 5 bays in all. End bays project under gables. Flush stone banding and top cornice; stone coped gables. End bays have Venetian windows with rusticated colonnettes, pulivinated frieze and cornice forming hood over central light; sashes with glazing bars. Single tripartite windows flank entrance with cornice over. Band decorated with cartouches and foliage bears the inscription "TOXTETH LIBRARY", entablature over, with eared architraves and triple keystones; small-pared casements. Gable flanked by obelisk finials and scrolls; round-headed recesses with architraves and triple keystones at apexes contain cartouches and have open segmental pediments. Centre round- arched entrance with carved keystone, Ionic columns and pilasters, and deeply-projecting round-arched hood on foliated consoles. Central louvre has 4 Tuscan aedicules with open pediments and round-headed louvred openings, supporting lead cupola. 5-bay return to Upper Parliament Street has central 2 bays breaking forward under gables, with Venetian windows. Interior: Segmental vaulted entrance hall. Central bays have glazed dome over galleried hall. End bays have coffered segmental vaults, that to north has painting in lunette.Copper plaque in entrance records opening, richly decorated and set with enamel roundels.
Listing NGR: SJ3549489123
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