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Latitude: 53.692 / 53°41'31"N
Longitude: -1.312 / 1°18'43"W
OS Eastings: 445528
OS Northings: 421951
OS Grid: SE455219
Mapcode National: GBR MT8R.R7
Mapcode Global: WHDC6.TGFG
Plus Code: 9C5WMMRQ+R6
Entry Name: Pontefract Museum
Listing Date: 3 March 1975
Last Amended: 15 November 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1313268
English Heritage Legacy ID: 342696
Also known as: Carnegie Public Library
ID on this website: 101313268
Location: Pontefract, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF8
County: Wakefield
Electoral Ward/Division: Pontefract North
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Pontefract
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Pontefract St Giles with St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Art Nouveau Library building Museum building
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
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