Spring Hill Library (grid reference SP055874) is a red brick and terracotta Victorian building in Ladywood, Birmingham, England.
Designed in 1891 by Frederick Martin of Martin & Chamberlain with a 65-foot (20 m) clock tower on the corner of Icknield Street and Spring Hill and opened on 7 January 1893, it now stands next to a roundabout and linked via a glazed atrium to a new (2010) Tesco superstore. The site was previously the location for the turnpike gate house for Icknield Street.
Still in use as a Birmingham branch library, it is a Grade II* listed building.
Notes
- Birmingham Libraries – History of Spring Hill Library
- Spring Hill Architecture – article by Joe Holyoak 1974
- Pictures of Spring Hill Library in context with neighbouring buildings: Search for "Spring Hill Library" from Birmingham Images
52°29′6.16″N 1°55′10.14″W / 52.4850444°N 1.9194833°W / 52.4850444; -1.9194833
References
Thornton, Roy (2006). Victorian Buildings of Birmingham. Sutton Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-7509-3857-9. 0-7509-3857-9 ↩
John Young Walker MacAlister; Alfred William Pollard (1891). The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. Oxford University Press. p. 199. /wiki/John_Young_Walker_MacAlister ↩
Historic England. "Spring Hill Public Library (Grade II*) (1076161)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 January 2016. /wiki/Historic_England ↩
Historic England. "Details and photograph (1076161)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 October 2006. /wiki/Historic_England ↩