Description

LYTHAM ST ANNES

SD32NW CLIFTON DRIVE SOUTH, St Annes
621-1/2/105 (South East side)
No.254
District Central Library

II

Also known as: No.254 Carnegie Library CLIFTON DRIVE SOUTH St
Annes.
Public library. 1904-6, dated 1904 on east gable.
Red brick in stretcher bond, with sandstone dressings,
Cumbrian slate roof and copper-clad dome. Approximately
rectangular plan formed by a tall open hall with an octagonal
vestibule at the north-west corner, surrounded by
single-storey reading rooms, offices, etc, including a porch
in the splayed north-west corner.
Eclectic style with Edwardian Baroque accent. Plain frieze,
moulded cornice and brick parapet to both levels.
The corner entrance has a round-headed doorway with banded
head and a stone architrave including a pair of engaged
columns with tall plinths and debased Ionic capitals, a
pulvinated frieze, moulded cornice and an ogival-headed panel
in the parapet with raised lettering "CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY";
and is flanked by keyed oculi.
Above and behind is an octagonal lantern (to the vestibule)
which has 2-light mullioned windows, small pediments on the
cornice over these (alternately segmental and triangular), a
parapet ramped up at the angles, and a green copper dome with
a finely-detailed apex lantern and finial.
The west returned side has one transomed 6-light window and 5
canted bay windows in similar style, all of stone; and, above
and behind, the hall has a clerestory of three 4-light windows
similar to those of the octagon; and a ridge ventilator to the
roof.
The north returned side, which is stepped and terminates in a
tall gable which has a pedimental apex containing a plaque
lettered "AD 1904", is in similar style.
INTERIOR: tiled dado to porch and vestibule, double doors with
Art Nouveau stained glass; 3-bay aisle arcaded east side of
hall, with fluted pilasters and keyed elliptical arches;
office on south side with octagonal skylight.

Listing NGR: SD3239228353

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Anne's Library at Wikipedia
• St Anne's Library official website
• Wikidata Q7592492

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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