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| Picton Reading Room and Hornby Library | |
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 Picton Reading Room, William Brown Street | |
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| General information | |
| Location | William Brown Street,Liverpool, England |
| Coordinates | 53°24′35.50″N02°58′49″W / 53.4098611°N 2.98028°W /53.4098611; -2.98028 |
| Construction started | 1875 |
| Completed | 1906 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architects | Cornelius Sherlock (Picton Reading Room) Thomas Shelmerdine (Hornby Library) |
| Designations | |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
| Official name | Hornby Library Picton Reading Room |
| Designated | 28 June 1952 |
| Reference no. | 1359620 |
ThePicton Reading Room and Hornby Library is aGrade II* listed building onWilliam Brown Street in Liverpool, England, which now forms part of theLiverpool Central Library.
The chairman of theWilliam Brown Library and Museum, SirJames Picton, laid the foundation stone of the Picton Reading Room in 1875. It was designed byCornelius Sherlock, and modelled after theBritish Museum Reading Room, and was the first electrically lit library in the UK. It was completed in 1879 formally opened by the Mayor of Liverpool,Sir Thomas Bland Royden. The front is semicircular withCorinthian columns, and the shape was chosen by the architect to cover the change in the axis of the row of buildings at this point. The Hornby Reading Room (named after Hugh Frederick Hornby) byThomas Shelmerdine was added in 1906. It stands behind the older building and the interior is decorated in the Edwardian Imperial style.[1]
Picton Reading Room and Hornby Library is recorded in theNational Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.[2]
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