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| Dalton Library, Dalton-in-Furness | ||
| Dalton Library | ||
| Street:- | Nelson Street | |
| locality:- | Dalton-in-Furness | |
| civil parish:- | Dalton Town with Newton (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | library | |
| coordinates:- | SD22907417 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2274 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD27 | |
| references:- | Listed Buildings 2010 |
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 CEJ31.jpg (taken 20.11.2015)  CEJ32.jpg "CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY 1903" (taken 20.11.2015) |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Dalton Public Library |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "DALTON PUBLIC LIBRARY / / NELSON STREET / DALTON TOWN WITH NEWTON / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388541 / SD2290574173" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Library. Dated 1903. For Dalton-in-Furness Urban Council; patron Andrew Carnegie. Snecked limestone with red ashlar sandstone dressings, graduated slate roof. 3 storeys and attic; 1:3 bays, bay 1 set forward and gabled; 3-bay right return. Chamfered and rock-faced plinth; large quoins. Ground and 1st floors have cross-windows in chamfered surrounds with string courses across the transoms. Central entrance with panelled double doors, fanlight with wrought-iron tracery and keyed archivolt; 2 tall windows on right. Bay 1 has ashlar, 3-light bay window with narrow side-lights and cornice surmounted by corner pedestals with gadrooned vases. Cornice continues beneath ashlar limestone frieze inscribed 'CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY 1903'. 1st floor: moulded sill band and drip-moulds; bay 1 with canted bay-window of 1:2:1 lights having guilloche on apron and swept parapet copings. 2nd floor: 2-light mullioned windows with dentilled, moulded sills and dripmoulds; bay-1 window has shaped apron and scrolled dripmould from which rises a shaft that cuts a string course and divides a louvred 2-light attic opening with scrolled hood-mould. Corbelled shafts also rise at each end of gable and link to moulded finials set on shaped kneelers; stepped gable copings with apex finial. Eaves over bays 2-4 have corbel table and decorative cast-iron rainwater goods. End stack on left with offset and cornice; right end gable treated as bay 1. Right return: twin-gabled, flat elevation in same style." "INTERIOR: tiled dado to entrance/stair hall. Stone staircase with square, cast-iron newel post and simple cast-iron balustrade panels to wooden handrail." |
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