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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|accessdate=25 January 2013}}</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 surroundedlinked byvia flatteneda groundglazed whereatrium onceto ita wasnotably attachedelegant tonew (2010) Tesco buildingssuperstore. 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]].

As of January 2014, the city council has decided it wishes to close the building down as part of its cuts program, despite being in the most deprived ward in the UK. A campaigning group is being set up to oppose this. The next meeting is at the library Thursday 6th February 2014 at 530-630. See also Facebook page for Friends of Spring Hill Library.

A proposal to construct a [[Tesco]] [[supermarket]] to the rear of the building includes the construction of a glazed corridor to connect the two structures.