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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 [[Martin & Chamberlain]] with a {{convert|65|ft|m|0|adj=on|lk=on}} clock tower on the corner of Icknield Street and Spring Hill and opened on [[January 7]] [[1893]], it now stands next to a roundabout and surrounded by flattened ground where once it was attached to buildings. The site was previously the ___location for the turnpike gate house for Icknield Street.<ref>{{cite book |author=John Young Walker MacAlister |coauthors=Alfred William 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|grade II* listed building]].

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*{{IoEentry|217643|Details and photograph from Images of England site}}

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