Kensington Central Library - Public Reference Library Open Times

Kensington Central Library - Public Reference Library open Times. Kensington Central Library, on Hornton Street and Phillimore Walk, Kensington, London, is a Grade II* listed building. It was designed by the architect E. in 1958–60. Vincent Harris on the site of The Abbey, a Gothic house built in 1880 for Mr. Abbot and destroyed in 1944 by bombing.

Kensington Central Library library was the final building planned, among many other civic beauties, by the English architect E Vincent Harris, who also constructed the fine-looking Manchester Central Library. When Kensington Central Library project started in 1958, with almost 50 years of experience behind him, it is not shocking that he put up that spacious floor plan and those bold, authoritative pillars.