The Kent History and Library Centre is a purpose-built headquarters in James Whatman Way,

Maidstone Maidstone is the largest Town status in the United Kingdom, town in Kent, England, of which it is the county town. Maidstone is historically important and lies 32 miles (51 km) east-south-east of London. The River Medway runs through the c ...

, that opened on 23 April 2012. It has been designed to incorporate under one roof the former Centre for Kentish Studies (the combined

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and local studies library) and the town's former Central Library.

Sculpture

In August 2013 a sculpture by

Antony Gormley Sir Antony Mark David Gormley (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His works include the ''Angel of the North'', a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; ''Another Pla ...

entitled "Two Stones" was installed adjacent to the building. The sculpture had originally been commissioned by

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in the 1970s from Gormley, then a newly graduated art student of the

Maidstone College of Art The Kent Institute of Art & Design (KIAD, often ) was an art school based across three campuses in the county of Kent, in the United Kingdom. It was formed by the amalgamation of three independent colleges: Canterbury College of Art, Maidstone Col ...

, for a new development in

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but had been removed following vandalism.

References

External links

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Kent Archives and Local History web page
{{Authority control Archives in Kent

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Libraries in Kent Buildings and structures in Maidstone