Description

MARKET PLACE
1.
5249
(East Side)
Public Library
SP 0343 NE 1/224
II GV
2.
1908-9. Architect: G.H.Hunt of Evesham. Classical. Red brick with stone dressings;
2 storeys; 5 casement windows in moulded stone architraves with keyblocks and pediments,
the 2 outer windows at either side having balustrades. The ground storey has semi-
circular headed windows with keyblocks and central doorway with rectangular fanlight,
multi-panelled divided door and stone Roman Doric portico surmounted by balustrade
and urns; string-course; stone modillion bracket eaves cornice; brick parapet.

The Public Library, Nos 6 and 6A, Nos 7 and 8 and Walker Hall form a group with
Abbot Reginald's Gateway and The Old Vicarage Church of St Lawrence, Church of
All Saints, The Bell Tower, Abbot Reginald's Wall and the Porter's Lodge, Remains of
west wall of the North Transept of Abbey, Archway to south of the Remains of
west wall of the North Transept of Abbey, Market Place and Nos 53 and 54 incorporating
Remains of Abbey Gate, Gate and railings of No 53, Remains of Abbey Stables, The
Almonry and The Stocks, Merstow Green.

Listing NGR: SP0373243756

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26450402

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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