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Latitude: 53.4098 / 53°24'35"N
Longitude: -2.9803 / 2°58'48"W
OS Eastings: 334934
OS Northings: 390781
OS Grid: SJ349907
Mapcode National: GBR 75M.BN
Mapcode Global: WH877.6K2B
Plus Code: 9C5VC259+WV
Entry Name: Hornby Library Picton Reading Room
Listing Date: 28 June 1952
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1359620
English Heritage Legacy ID: 359740
ID on this website: 101359620
Location: Liverpool, Merseyside, L3
County: Liverpool
Electoral Ward/Division: Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Liverpool
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside
Church of England Parish: Liverpool Our Lady and St Nicholas
Church of England Diocese: Liverpool
Tagged with: Public library Reading room
SJ3490 NE WILLIAM BROWN
STREET
L1
49/1357 Picton Reading
Room and Hornby
28.6.52 Library.
G.V. II*
Reading Room and Library.
1875-9 by Cornelius Sherlock. Hornby Library by
Shelmerdine, 1906. Stone. Semi-circular front with
rusticated wall surface with small niches and statues.
Entrance with architraves, consoles and cornice. The whole
raised on a base, and surrounded by a peristyle of fluted
Corinthian columns with enriched frieze, cornice and
balustrade. Domed rotunda roof. Double stair and
balustraded wall enclosing courtyard with iron lampstands.
Interior of reading room has walls lined with shelves, with
2 galleries and projecting bookcases. Iron spiral stairs
railings and light fittings. Central wooden desk with lamp.
Coffered saucer dome with top light. Hornby library: Main
hall of 5 bays with Ionic colonnades. Balustraded balcony,
swept round, ends on Doric columns, with cross arches.
Entablature projects over colonnade with Diocletian windows
above. In corridor outside, bronze plaque commemorating
opening. The reading room is named after Sir James
Allanson Picton, first chairman of the Liverpool Libraries
Committee.
Listing NGR: SJ3493490781
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