The Jerwood Centre (Wordsworth Museum), near Dove Cottage, Grasmere, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England UK
The Jerwood Centre was completed in 2004 and opened by the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney on 2 June 2005. It is an excellent example of how public and private funders have come together to support our work. The Centre is both a striking architectural statement and a secure, long-term home for our great collection. It has outstanding facilities for research and conservation, enabling us to develop further our education, publication and exhibition programmes. Its Reading Room The Reading Room at the Jerwood Centre, Wordsworth Trustcontains a major Romantic library featuring many rare first editions. This was also created in 2004 when we considerably increased our printed book collection, principally through the aquisition of one of the finest collections of Romantic literature ever assembled to still be in private hands. In 2005, the Jerwood Centre, designed by architects Benson & Forsyth and built under the guidance of Napper Architects Ltd, won a commendation from the Civic Trust for the quality of the architecture. The judges said it was: 'A breathtakingly beautiful building of sheer simplicity with a Scottish flavour in the 'drum and tower' design. Built to house the Trust's collection of fine art, books and manuscripts, the building reflects and mimics the local vernacular, particularly through the inclusion of a slate roof. The floating roof provides clerestory glazing to the reading room and the interior is punctuated with large picture windows ... This is an impressive example of how modern architecture can co-exist with traditional buildings.' The Jerwood Centre also won awards from RIBA (the Royal Institute of British Architects), and has won critical acclaim in the media. The Guardian's architectural commentator Jonathan Glancey wrote: 'What a quietly heroic design this is ... A fine and likeable building: intelligent and acceptable to everyone. It shows how a national collection can be located successfully in a village, while demonstrating how
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