Chimera - Carnegie Library Building - Skipton, UK
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dtrebilc
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This chimera is above the entrance of this Carnegie Library.
Waymark Code: WMWTVB
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/13/2017
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Andrew Carnegie was a successful industrialist who gave away much of his fortune to fund projects throughout the world, including around 2,500 libraries.
This library in Skipton was partly funded with a grant of £3000 and opened in 1910. It is still used as a library today.
Over the entrance the chimera is a carved symbolic figure of Knowledge and is flanked by carved panels representing Literature and Art.