Kent History and Library Centre

Library and county record office in Maidstone, England

51°16′49″N 0°31′02″E / 51.2804°N 0.5173°E / 51.2804; 0.5173Typepublic library

OperatorKent County Council

Websitewww.kent.gov.uk/leisure-and-community/libraries

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The Kent History and Library Centre is a purpose-built headquarters in James Whatman Way, Maidstone, that opened on 23 April 2012.^[1] It has been designed to incorporate under one roof the former Centre for Kentish Studies (the combined county record office and local studies library) and the town's former Central Library.^[1]^[2]

Sculpture

In August 2013 a sculpture by Antony Gormley entitled "Two Stones" was installed adjacent to the building.^[3] The sculpture had originally been commissioned by Kent County Council in the 1970s from Gormley, then a newly graduated art student of the Maidstone College of Art, for a new development in Ashford but had been removed following vandalism.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "Kent library and history centre opens in Maidstone". bbc.co.uk. 23 April 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
^ "Kent History and Library Centre opens this Monday". Kent.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Antony Gormley's Two Stones boulder sculpture moves from Ashford to Kent History and Library Centre in Maidstone". Kentonline.co.uk. 29 August 2013. Retrieved 7 July 2021.