Carnegie Free Library (Montrose)
The Carnegie Free Library , also Montrose Library , is a public library in the Scottish town of Montrose in the Council Area Angus . In 1971 the structure was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A.
history
The library is one of the Carnegie libraries that Andrew Carnegie donated to the turn of the century. In 1902 Carnegie promised to provide £ 7,500 to build a library in Montrose. The construction was put out to tender and the Scottish architect James Lindsay Grant won the competition on April 24, 1903. The reading room opened on July 5, 1905, while the library did not open until October 19 of the same year. The cost of construction exceeded the targeted £ 7,500.
description
The Carnegy Free Library stands on the former site of a church meeting house at the confluence of Bridge Street and High Street in Castle Place . The large, two-story building is designed in a free interpretation of Neo-Renaissance and Scottish Baronial styles. The red sandstone building is asymmetrical. On the left of the main facade, which is exposed to the south-east, there is the arched entrance portal with a lead-glass- covered fighter window and an ornamented keystone . Its flanking Ionic pilasters have a triangular gable with a tooth cut and a richly sculptured tympanum , which shows the coat of arms of the Burgh . Set back, an octagonal stair tower emerges on the left . The five elongated windows with keystones on the main facade are crowned on the ground floor . A risalit emerges in the middle, the window of which is coupled to form a quintuplet . All post windows are stone.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
Web links
- Angus government information
- Entry to Carnegie Free Library in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland's database
Coordinates: 56 ° 42 ′ 35.5 " N , 2 ° 28 ′ 8.9" W.