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Latitude: 51.5396 / 51°32'22"N
Longitude: 0.0454 / 0°2'43"E
OS Eastings: 541945
OS Northings: 184280
OS Grid: TQ419842
Mapcode National: GBR ML.Q3X
Mapcode Global: VHHNB.QKVM
Plus Code: 9F32G2QW+R4
Entry Name: Passmore Edwards Library
Listing Date: 16 May 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1261973
English Heritage Legacy ID: 436215
ID on this website: 101261973
Location: Plashet, Newham, London, E6
County: London
District: Newham
Electoral Ward/Division: East Ham North
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Newham
Traditional County: Essex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Manor Park St Barnabas
Church of England Diocese: Chelmsford
Tagged with: Register office Library building
The following building shall be added:
TQ 48 SW PLASHET GROVE
(north side)
251-/4/10004 Passmore Edwards Library
(former)
II
Public library, now registry office. 1898-9 by Silvanus Trevail. Red brick with stone dressings,
slate roof with three-stage cupola bearing clock. Two storeys, with gabled attic over entrance
bay. Three bays, the outer bays with five-light mullion and transom windows under parapets
sporting trefoil headed panels. Central entrance composed like a Diocletian window, pair of
blue marble Ionic columns carrying arch, spandrels with bas-reliefs of seated figures with scroll
and book. Aprons of first-floor windows inscribed in raised letters 'PASSMORE EDWARDS
PUBLIC LIBRARY'. Gabled two-storey returns with windows at first and attic storey. Lower
rear section contains reading room (low projecting bay on east side originally contained the
ladies' bay).
Interior contains a hammerbeam roof to rear reading room. The first and attic storeys originally
housed the chief librarian.
Opened by Herbert Gladstone, MP, 30 November 1899. Largely paid for by John Passmore
Edwards, philanthropist and proprietor of the Building News, who promoted libraries in the
poorer parts of London. This is an uncommonly richly decorated example of his patronage in
a suburban area.
Source:
Building News, 11 November 1898.
Listing NGR: TQ4194584280
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