The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services working to the IHBC’s standards – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, including notices gleaned from across the development sector’s publications, and for this week the IHBC Director’s top pick features a report Building Design (BD) on the listing of ‘Colin Wilson’s other library’.
BD writes:
A school library designed by Colin St John Wilson while he was working on the British Library has been given grade II protection.
The architect, known as Sandy, designed Bishop Wilson Memorial Library in Essex in honour of his father. Henry Wilson was bishop of Chelmsford from 1929 to 1950.
The listing was approved by the DCMS on the advice of Historic England which described the library as a ‘gloriously vibrant and fun interior inside a striking circular structure’ and ‘perhaps the most successful example of post-modernism in post-war school design’….
The library was built between 1983-86 at the Bishop’s Church of England and Roman Catholic Primary School which was established to provide education for a growing population in the north-east of Chelmsford during the 1980s.
It is one of a number of library designs in which Wilson and his partner MJ Long came to specialise.
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