Library: Kensington Place, Edge Hill, Liverpool

The first purpose built branch library in Liverpool.  Very pretty, and asymmetrical.  'The Builder' called the style 'Germanic Renaissance'.  Red brick and stone dressings.  Entrance porch with little semicircular pediment, and Ionic columns.  Octagonal white painted timber and glass lantern topped by a cupola.  The design is full of little inventions; one of the most prominent is the arcaded parapets.

Reference    Pevsner county: Lancashire: South
Reference    Pollard & Pevsner, "Lancashire: Liverpool and the South West" (2006)