3-003-724 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Pimlico Literary Institution, 1861. 'This institution has been founded for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants of Pimlico [in London] with a library and a convenient reading-room, furnishing means for rational amusement and improvement to the mind. The building is composed of yellow brick, with red and dark brown bands, the intermixture producing a good effect. The frontage, which is towards Winchester-street, is 104ft. long; the depth, in Warwick-street, is 43 ft. The large hall is 80 ft. long by 40 ft. wide, and its height is 35 ft.; it is approached by stone steps. The second hall is 40 ft. by 28 ft. There are also a library, and class and chess rooms, rendering it a building of great utility and importance to the large locality of Pimlico. The whole has been constructed under the immediate direction of Mr. Winder, of Fenchurch-street'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.