Central (Carnegie) Library CF47 8AF

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Central (Carnegie) Library

CF47 8AF

Designed by Councillor T. Edmund Rees (of Messrs Johnson, Richards & Rees, architects of Merthyr) and built by Messrs Enoch Williams and Sons, contractors of Dowlais at a cost of £8,500.

The Central Library was officially opened on 7th November, 1935. The Lending Library and Children's Library were opened on 9th March, 1936.

Grade II Listed

Description - Exterior
Arts and Crafts Modern.

2-storey and basement, Portland stone front, hipped Cumbrian slate roof swept to wide eaves. 7 windows with 3- light (2-light centre) mullioned windows in moulded architraves, leaded lights. Cornices and guttae drops to ground-floor surrounds. Stepped plinth. Central doorway and fanlight grouped in pilastered frame with niches and Tudor arch in moulded surround to entrance, flight of steps with coped flanking walls lead up.Similar side elevations, one-storey extension to rendered rear.

Interior
Interior retains panelled and glazed entrance-hall with heraldic stained-glass dog-leg staircase etc.

The plaque read:

Central Library 1935-6 Designed by Councillor J. M. Ross and built with help from the Carnegie Foundation. Opened by the Honourable Henry Seymour Berry, a Freeman of the Borough of Merthyr Tydfil.