Description

PONTEFRACT SALTER ROW
SE 4521 NE
(north-west side)
8/57 Pontefract Museum (formerly
3.3.75 listed as Carnegie Public
Library)

II

Carnegie public library, now museum. 1904. By Garside and Pennington of Pontefract
and Castleford. Red brick in irregular bond with cream terracotta dressings, Welsh
slate roof. 2 storeys, 1:3:1 bays. The end bays project as wings, with corner
pilasters extended up as battered crenellated pylons in terracotta with lotus
flowers. From centre range projects a central single-storey gabled porch with a
round-arched opening with terracotta voussoirs, keystone and hoodmould. Flanking
and above, casement windows. wings have Venetian windows with terracotta surrounds,
joggled voussoirs, large keystones and hoodmoulds, with sunburst glazing bars in
round-headed central lights and oblique glazing bars in flanking lights, and with
egg-and-dart moulding to soffits, and lotus flowers on jambs. The left wing has
a single Venetian window, that in right wing is divided horizontally. The left
wing is lower, and has in the gable a plaque with a portcullis around which is the
inscription 'SIGILLUM COMMUNE BURGENSIUM PONTISFRACTI'. Inside porch, leaved part-
glazed round-arched doors. Interior: entrance hall has 'Free Library 1904' and
decorative patterns in tessellated floor, dark-green tile architraves and cornice,
lighter-green wall tiles with panels of 4 patterned tiles. ,

Listing NGR: SE4552821951

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q99741692

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