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Latitude: 54.7746 / 54°46'28"N
Longitude: -1.5766 / 1°34'35"W
OS Eastings: 427336
OS Northings: 542272
OS Grid: NZ273422
Mapcode National: GBR KFF7.G6
Mapcode Global: WHC4Q.R8G1
Plus Code: 9C6WQCFF+V9
Entry Name: University Library
Listing Date: 10 March 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1310414
English Heritage Legacy ID: 110406
ID on this website: 101310414
Location: Durham, County Durham, DH1
County: County Durham
Electoral Ward/Division: Elvet and Gilesgate
Parish: City of Durham
Built-Up Area: Durham
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Tagged with: Library building
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE PALACE GREEN
NZ 2742 SW (West side)
14/350 University Library
GV II
Lecture rooms, now library. 1882 by A.W. Blomfield. Coursed squared sandstone
with ashlar dressings; stone flagged roof with stone gable copings.
Perpendicular style. 2 storeys of varying heights; 5 bays. Gabled first bay
has steps up to double door with wrought iron hinges in hollow-chamfered
Tudor-arched surround; carved spandrels and arcaded panel above in square-
headed moulded surround. 4-light window, stone mullioned and transomed, above;
first floor string; gable parapet string with corner gargoyles. Right end
entrance bay has added Renaissance-style porch with Tuscan columns, entablature
with low-relief UNIVERSITY LIBRARY in frieze, and obelisk finials; round arch
of door has long bracket from key supporting hood. Shallow canted bay above
has eaves string and moulded flat-coped parapet. Central block has 2 large
mullioned-and-transomed windows on ground floor and three 2-light mullioned
windows on first floor, with elliptical heads; first floor string; eaves string
with corner gargoyles; roll-moulded parapet. Roof has roll-moulded gable copings;
stone crown finials.
Interior: large open-well stair has twisted wrought-iron balustrade; first
floor rooms have boarded dados, plaster walls and bracketed queen post and
collar roofs.
Listing NGR: NZ2733642272
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