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Rh patterns. The arched ceiling of the newspaper room is of fibrous plaster, and has panelled soffits, with Greek honeysuckle ornament in the spandrils and the upper portions of the windows, and transomes over the doors are filled with green tinted glass, bearing the same ornament in brown tints.

The cost of the building and site was about £8000, and was wholly defrayed by the donor, Mr. Henry Tate of Stivatham, after whom the library is named.

The West Ham Central Library forms the north-west corner of the West Ham Technical Institute (Fig. 108), and occupies an area of about 115 feet