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Latitude: 50.1148 / 50°6'53"N
Longitude: -5.5314 / 5°31'53"W
OS Eastings: 147632
OS Northings: 29828
OS Grid: SW476298
Mapcode National: GBR DXQC.WLK
Mapcode Global: VH12Z.2CLV
Plus Code: 9C2P4F79+WC
Entry Name: Jubilee Pool
Listing Date: 4 March 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1221190
English Heritage Legacy ID: 351301
ID on this website: 101221190
Location: Jubilee Bathing Pool, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18
County: Cornwall
Civil Parish: Penzance
Built-Up Area: Penzance
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: Penzance St Mary the Virgin with St Paul
Church of England Diocese: Truro
Tagged with: Park Architectural structure
SW 47 29 PENZANCE BATTERY ROAD
7/10003 Jubilee Pool
GV II
Seaside lido. Built 1935 to the designs of Captain F Latham,
Borough Engineer. Painted concrete. Triangular plan, jutting
into the sea, with stepped terraces descending from the entrances
at road level: square-headed openings to rows of dressing boxes
built into terraces. The concrete has been moulded in order to
create a graceful series of Art Deco curves. A particularly
striking design, which received much favourable comment at the
time. It is now the finest surviving example of its type with
the exception of the Saltdean Lido in Brighton (listed grade II).
In Europe, lidos such as the Piscine Molitor in Paris of 1929
were the first to adopt the modernist style in order to embody
the worship of sunlight and physical fitness. The seaside lido
manifested the transformation of sea bathing in the 1920s from
a predominantly health activity into a leisure activity, and
because it was freed from the constraints in planning of more
conventional pools it presented local authorities with the
opportunity to emulate Continental fashions.
Listing NGR: SW4763229828
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