page_title: Pontefract Library
section_title: Present Library
hierarchical_section_title: Pontefract Library / Present Library
caption_attribution_description: English: Pontefract Library seen from Salter Row, Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Taken on the afternoon of Thursday the 25th of April 2019.
context_page_description: Pontefract Library is a public library in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. The present day building is notable as one of the last examples of architecture by John Poulson
context_section_description: The present library was is situated on Shoemarket and was opened in 1975 to a design by disgraced Pontefract architect, John Poulson.  The library was one of Poulson's final buildings, openeing two years after his imprisonment for corruption.  The building is of two storeys, the first floor being a mezanine.  The interior is clad in wood with a central staircase linking the ground floor with mezanine.  The exterior has the characteristic geometric shapes of Poulson's earlier brutalist style buildings, however unlike his earlier works the pre-cast concrete is finished.  The windows are tinted to protect the stock and extrude from the building.  The library is the only public library in the town.
caption: The library in 2019
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