Spring Hill Library

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Spring Hill Library is a red brick and terracotta Victorian building in Ladywood, Birmingham, England.

Designed in 1891 by Martin & Chamberlain with a 65 foot clock tower on the corner of Icknield Street and Spring Hill and opened on January 7th 1893 it now stands next to a roundabout and surrounded by flattened ground where once it was attached to buildings.

Still in use as a Birmingham branch library, it is a grade II* listed building.

[edit] Sources

• Birmingham Libraries – History of Spring Hill Library
• Spring Hill Architecture – article by Joe Holyoak 1974
• Digital Ladywood (photographs of Birmingham) - pictures of Spring Hill Library in context with neighbouring buildings - when in website, search for Spring Hill Library
• Details and photograph from Images of England site