Description

TQ 2781 NW, NE
42/118 & 43/118 .

Bryanston Place
Seymour Leisure Centre (includes Seymour Leisure Centre, Seymour Place)

GV
II
Public baths and laundry, now leisure centre. 1935-37, by Kenneth Cross for St Marylebone Borough Council. Purple brick with red brick window architraves and Portland stone dressings; gabled Spanish tile roofs; brick ridge stacks. "Courtyard plan" with first-class swimming pool to centre. Renaissance "palazzo" style.

Two storey, fifteen-bay elevation to Bryanston Place. Revealed metal doors, in Art Deco style, set in three semi-circular arched stone architraves to centre; carved stone medallions to spandrels. Metal glazing bars in Art Deco style to all windows: semi-circular arched architraves to full-height ground floor windows, and square-headed rectangular first-floor windows, with three moulded stone architraves to centre. Modillioned stone cornice; bell cupola.

Similar eleven-bay elevation to Seymour Place; twelve-bay elevation to Shouldham Street has sashes set in square-headed architraves with sunk aprons; moulded stone door architrave to left and two similar but wider door architraves each surmounted by sash set in raised architrave with ramped sides and open stone pediment.

Interior: metal balustrades to staircases in entrance halls. Main (large) swimming pool is roofed over with reinforced concrete elliptical arches supporting windows of stepped section, directly derived from The Royal Horticultural Hall of 1927-8 but ultimately from European prototypes such as Freyssinet's Orly Airport Hangers, 1921-3.

The pool, built so as to convert into cinema, sports or meeting hall as desired, is surrounded by spectator galleries with metal balustrades and has proscenium feature to one end.

Listing NGR: TQ2748181557

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27082999

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas