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Latitude: 51.4814 / 51°28'52"N
Longitude: 0.1778 / 0°10'40"E
OS Eastings: 551322
OS Northings: 178072
OS Grid: TQ513780
Mapcode National: GBR SR.FHC
Mapcode Global: VHHNT.11C6
Plus Code: 9F32F5JH+G4
Entry Name: Erith Library
Listing Date: 7 March 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1255449
English Heritage Legacy ID: 459717
ID on this website: 101255449
Location: Erith, Bexley, London, DA8
County: London
District: Bexley
Electoral Ward/Division: Erith
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bexley
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Erith Christ Church
Church of England Diocese: Rochester
Tagged with: Public library Library building
TQ 5178 WALNUTTREE ROAD Erith
(east side)
959-/7/10004 Erith Library
II
Public library, 1906 by W Egerton. Red brick with extensive stone enrichment. Slate hipped roof with cupola. Two storeys, central frontispiece with segmental arched door canopy carried on Doric columns; aediculed niche over. Flanked on either side by four-window ranges, each pair of rectangular and keystoned windows to ground floor with a round first-floor window over. Southern return with pedimented doorway and long (four-bay) arcaded flank wall. Cupola in the form of a square temple, surmounted by a bronze sailing ship weathervane.
Interior. Entrance porch with two war memorial plaques. Small reading rooms on front range; main room is single-storey aisled space to rear, with marble columns at its entrance, wooden trussed roof with skylights. Side aisles divided from central bay by triple arcade, lit by lunettes.
Built with monies from the Andrew Carnegie Fund, this library is a good example of the 'Free Renaissance' style of library design.
Listing NGR: TQ5132278072
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 August 2017.
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