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Latitude: 53.047 / 53°2'49"N
Longitude: -2.9936 / 2°59'36"W
OS Eastings: 333489
OS Northings: 350434
OS Grid: SJ334504
Mapcode National: GBR 75.D5B7
Mapcode Global: WH88Y.ZNNY
Plus Code: 9C5V22W4+RH
Entry Name: Old Library
Listing Date: 23 December 1975
Last Amended: 31 January 1994
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 1852
Building Class: Recreational
Also known as: Old Library, Wrexham
Hen Lyfrgell Wrecsam
Old Carnegie Library
Old Carnegie Library, Wrexham
Wrexham Old Library
Wrexham Old Carnegie Library
ID on this website: 300001852
Location: Facing down Queen Street and closing the view from Hope Street.
County: Wrexham
Community: Rhosddu (Rhos-ddu)
Community: Rhosddu
Built-Up Area: Wrexham
Traditional County: Denbighshire
Tagged with: Public library Carnegie library
Built as a library and lecture hall in 1907 with funding from the Carnegie Trust to designs of Vernon Hodge, and enlarged in 1951. Council offices since 1973.
Flemish bond brickwork with ashlar lower storey and dressings and graded slate roof. 2 storeys, the main block is a symetrical 5-window range in baroque style. Central bay stressed by pilasters to segmental open pediment, with coat of arms. Central entrance recessed in segmental archway with heavy keystone beneath steep pediment carried on heavy brackets. Iron gates enclose the porch. Arched lower storey, with segmentally arched tripartite small-paned windows with keystones to continuous hood moulds. Fenestration of upper storey forms a continuous band of 3-light mullioned windows, divided by wider panelled pilasters. Angle pilasters, and those articulating central bay have high relief cartouches beneath heavy modillion cornice which continues across the central pediment. The roof is surmounted by a small square-section cupola. Rear range has 6 sash windows, grouped in pairs. Later cross wing beyond.
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