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 east-south-east of London. The River Medway runs through the centre of the town, l ...

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

county record office In the United Kingdom (and particularly in England and Wales) a county record office is usually a local authority repository, also called a county archives. Such repositories employ specialist staff to administer and conserve the historic and th ...

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 Pl ...

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

Kent County Council Kent County Council is a county council that governs the non-metropolitan county of Kent in England. The non-metropolitan county is smaller than the ceremonial county, which additionally includes the Unitary authorities of England, unitary auth ...

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 Co ...

, for a new development in Ashford but had been removed following vandalism.

References

External links

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Kent Archives and Local History web page
{{Authority control 2012 establishments in England Archives in Kent

Kent Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Gr ...

Libraries established in 2012 Libraries in Kent Buildings and structures in Maidstone