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'''Spring Hill Library''' ({{gbmapping|SP055874}}) is a [[red brick and terracotta]] [[Victorian era|Victorian]] building in [[Ladywood]], [[Birmingham]], [[England]].

Designed in 1891 by Frederick Martin<ref name=thornton>{{Cite book| last=Thornton|first=Roy|title=Victorian Buildings of Birmingham|publisher=Sutton Publishing Ltd|year=2006|isbn=0-7509-3857-9}}</ref> of [[Martin & Chamberlain]] with a {{convert|65|ft|m|0|adj=on}} clock tower on the corner of Icknield Street and Spring Hill and opened on 7 January 1893, it now stands next to a roundabout and linked via a glazed atrium to a new (2010) Tesco superstore. The site was previously the ___location for the turnpike gate house for Icknield Street.<ref>{{cite book |author=John Young Walker MacAlister |authorlink=John Young Walker MacAlister |author2=Alfred William Pollard |authorlink2=Alfred W. Pollard |title=The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1891 |page=199}}</ref>

Still in use as a Birmingham branch library, it is a [[listed building|gradeGrade II* listed building]].<ref>{{NHLE |num=1076161 |desc=Spring Hill PulblicPublic Library|grade=II* |accessdate=27 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{ImagesNHLE of|num=1076161 England|217643|desc=Details and photograph |accessdate=27 October 2006}}</ref>

In January 2014, the city council chose Spring Hill as one of four community libraries for future closure as part of its cuts program.<ref name=bmail>{{cite web|url=http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/four-birmingham-libraries-facing-closure-6556612|title=Four Birmingham libraries facing closure because of budget cuts|work=Birmingham Mail|accessdate=27 January 2016}}</ref>

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*[http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=15519&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=260 Spring Hill Architecture – article by Joe Holyoak 1974]

*Pictures of Spring Hill Library in context with neighbouring buildings: [http://www.search.birminghamimages.org.uk/Search.aspx?PageIndex=1&DateFrom=0&DateTo=2016&Keyword=Spring+Hill+Library Search for "Spring Hill Library"] from [http://www.search.birminghamimages.org.uk/search.aspx Birmingham Images]

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[[Category:LadywoodLibrary buildings completed in 1891]]

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[[Category:Gothic Revival architecture in the West Midlands (county)]]