AK Bell Library
The AK Bell Library is a public library in the Scottish city of Perth in the Council Area Perth and Kinross . In 1965 the building was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A.
history
The building was constructed between 1834 and 1838 as the Perth Infirmary . The Scottish architect William Mackenzie is responsible for the design . After a new hospital was opened in Perth in 1914, the Perth Infirmary was closed, but from 1915 it served as a military hospital for the wounded of the First World War . The Perthshire Education Authority took over the building in 1920. From 1930 the districts of Perthshire and Kinross-shire used the former hospital as the main administrative center. After the administration moved in 1985, the building was expanded in 1994 and the AK Bell Library opened there. It is named after the whiskey industrialist Arthur Kinmond Bell (1868–1942), whose charitable foundation runs the library.
description
The library is on York Place on the western edge of Perth city center. The two-story building is designed in a classical style. The north-facing main facade is eleven axes wide. A three-axis wide porte-chochère protrudes from the facade on the central risalit . Like all the windows on the central risalit, it has rounded arched openings with keystones . The brickwork is rusticated on the ground floor . Above this, a decorative band with wreath motifs divides the facade horizontally. The final cornice is made with a tooth cut . Twelve-part lattice windows are primarily installed along the facade . The roof is covered with gray slate.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Information about the AK Bell Library
- Entry on AK Bell Library in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland's database
Coordinates: 56 ° 23 '42 .1 " N , 3 ° 26' 15.1" W.