Английская Википедия:Coalbrookdale Institute
Coalbrookdale Institute is a former library and scientific institute in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England. Dating from the mid-19th century it is now used as a youth hostel. The building is a Grade II* listed building.
History
The Coalbrookdale Literary and Scientific Institution was formed in 1853 supported by the Coalbrookdale Company.Шаблон:Sfn The Institute was commissioned to provide a home for the institution's library and to be a meeting venue. The cost of the building was met by the Coalbrookdale Company and the building was designed by the works manager of the Coalbrookdale Company, Charles Crooke.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Opened in May 1859 the institute was used as a venue for lectures and also was the home the Coalbrookdale School of Art.[1]Шаблон:Sfn In 1899 the Literary and Scientific Institution merged with the Coalbrookdale Social Club and the institute became a base for outdoor activities as well as the existing technical and arts schools.Шаблон:Sfn
In 1928 the institute was purchased by Shropshire County Council who relocated the technical and art colleges to the Walker Technical College in Wellington and made the institute a venue for adult education.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
During the second half of the 20th century the institute closed but with the creation of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust in 1968 there was interest in developing the institute as a youth hostel,Шаблон:Sfn a plan that was completed in 1980 with YHA opening the building as a hostel.Шаблон:Sfn
Architecture
The institute is a two-storeyed building built of blue bricks produced in the Coalbrookdale Company's own brickworks at Lightmoor.[2] The brickwork is picked out with yellow brick dressings and has three flat gables with a Mansard roof.[3] When built there was a pitched roof and the gables topped with pediments with "Literary and Scientific Institute" in raised lettering across the frieze but these features were removed in the 1920s.[2] The style of the building was described contemporaneously as Tudor[4] or Tudor Gothic.Шаблон:Sfn
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