Gardens · South West England
Old Library
Old Library — a garden in england-south-west, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
- Dog-friendly
About
Old Library is a garden of interest in england-south-west, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Old Library (grid reference ST587727) is a historic building on the north side of King Street in Bristol, England. It was built in 1738–40 and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building. Until 1906 it housed the main collections of Bristol's public library, which was one of the first in England when it was founded in 1613 on the same site. Users of the library included Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey and Humphry Davy. From 1779 the building also contained one of the country's first public displays of fossils.
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Background
Architecture
The present King Street building dates from 1738–40. It was built in the early Georgian Palladian style, with a five-window front including a three-window centre with a pediment. The shallow porch, which has fluted Composite columns, is unobtrusive in a similar way to other buildings of the 1730s in Bristol. It was probably designed by the stonemason and carver James Paty the Elder, the first in a succession of members of the Paty family prominent as builders of 18th-century Bristol, although John Strahan has also been suggested as a possible architect. Another possibility that has been suggested is William Halfpenny. The imposing and disproportionately tall first storey of the Old Library…
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- Coordinates
- 51.4519, -2.5956
- District
- Bristol, City of
- Parish
- Bristol, City of, unparished area
- Postcode
- BS1 4DZ
- Parliamentary constituency
- Bristol Central
- Established
- 1740
Sources
- wikidata: Q7084369 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Old Library, Bristol (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Old Library?
- Old Library is in South-West England, United Kingdom (postcode BS1 4DZ), in the parish of Bristol, City of, unparished area.
- When was Old Library built?
- Built or established in 1740.
- How do I get to Old Library?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode BS1 4DZ. It sits within the Bristol Central parliamentary constituency.