A school library designed by Colin St John Wilson while he was working on the British Library has been given grade II protection.

The architect, known as Sandy, designed Bishop Wilson Memorial Library in Essex in honour of his father. Henry Wilson was bishop of Chelmsford from 1929 to 1950.

The listing was approved by the DCMS on the advice of Historic England which described the library as a “gloriously vibrant and fun interior inside a striking circular structure” and “perhaps the most successful example of post-modernism in post-war school design”.

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