Spring Hill Library

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building_name = Spring Hill Library

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caption = Spring Hill Library
building_type = Library
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location = Ladywood, Birmingham, England
coordinates = coord|52|29|6.16|N|1|55|10.14|W|type:landmark
completion_date = January 7 1893
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height = convert|65|ft|m|0
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architect = Martin & Chamberlain
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awards = Grade II* listed

Spring Hill Library (gbmapping|SP055874) is a red brick and terracotta Victorian building in Ladywood, Birmingham, England.

Designed in 1891 by Martin & Chamberlain with a convert|65|ft|m|0|adj=on|lk=on clock tower on the corner of Icknield Street and Spring Hill and opened on January 7 1893, it now stands next to a roundabout and surrounded by flattened ground where once it was attached to buildings. The site was previously the location for the turnpike gate house for Icknield Street. [cite book |author=John Young Walker MacAlister |coauthors=Alfred William Pollard |title=The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society |pages=199 |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1891]

Still in use as a Birmingham branch library, it is a grade II* listed building.

A proposal to construct a Tesco supermarket to the rear of the building includes the construction of a glazed corridor to connect the two structures.

References

* [http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=15511&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=260 Birmingham Libraries – History of Spring Hill Library]
* [http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=15519&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=260 Spring Hill Architecture – article by Joe Holyoak 1974]
*Digital-Ladywood|Spring Hill Library|pictures of Spring Hill Library in context with neighbouring buildings
*IoEentry|217643|Details and photograph from Images of England site