File:Royal Pump Rooms & Baths, Leamington Spa (6273249787).jpg
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The Royal Pump Rooms & Baths in Leamington Spa. There is now an Art Gallery in the building. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Pump_Rooms" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Royal Pump Rooms</a> The Royal Pump Rooms is a building in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England. It was the most famous of several spa baths opened in Leamington between the late-18th and mid-19th centuries. People would travel from throughout the country, and indeed Europe, to benefit from treatments using the town's healing waters. When 'taking the waters' became less fashionable after the mid-19th century the Pump Rooms became Leamington's only surviving spa facility, later also being extended to include the town's public swimming pool. After a major redevelopment in 1997 - 99 the building now houses Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, a public Library, Tourist Information Centre, cafe and assembly rooms. It is Grade II listed. <a href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-481801-royal-pump-room-and-baths-royal-leamingt" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Royal Pump Room and Baths, Royal Leamington Spa - British Listed Buildings</a> Spa pump room and swimming baths. 1813-1814 with later additions and alterations including ladies' pool of c1870; 1885; 1889; 1910; those of 1926-7 probably include side pavilions; those of c1948 include remodelling of windows, and 1956. By CS Smith of Warwick, a pupil of Sir Jeffry Wyatville and financed by a syndicate; of this only the colonnade remains, with additions of 1870 by J Cundall of Leamington. 1885 rebuildings including pump room, and 1899 baths extension by W de Normanville, the Borough Engineer. Sandstone ashlar with red sandstone columns and dark grey brick plinth, slate and glass roofs. STYLE: late Classical, with Turkish-style interior. EXTERIOR: main range of 2 storeys, 9 first-floor windows, the outer bays project slightly to full height, between single-tall-storey, 3-window pavilions, and with ranges to rear. Pump room to main range at front with baths to rear. Ground floor has Doric colonnade: Dodecastyle centre between distyle with antae ranges with full entablature with triglyphs; balustraded parapet has panels and vase-shaped balusters. Portico has patterned tile floor. Plinth. Entrances: to outer bays are double 4-fielded-panel doors; to centre, a shallow recess with double part-glazed doors with overlight. Otherwise four 1/1 sashes with plain reveals. Cornice. First floor: outer bays have broad pilasters with horizontal rustication to angles. Otherwise, 8/8 sashes with tooled surrounds. Continuous frieze, cornice, blocking course. Side ranges (alike): Doric pilasters between bays and to angles. Three 8/12 sashes with fanlights with radial glazing (that to left centre with stained glass) with pilastered surrounds and tooled round-arches with central keystones; tooled and chamfered sills, aprons. Balustrade of panels and vase balusters continues to returns. Hipped roofs. Pilasters and fenestration continue for 6-window bays to left return. Further range to rear projects to left with Tuscan pilasters clasping angles and elliptically-arched entrance to left with board door. To right return a similar 4-bay arcade, but first two bays are blind, then two 2/2 sashes with horns. Further range has three 2/2 sashes and three 1/1 sashes with tooled sills and plain reveals. Above these are two round-arched openings, that to left with 12-pane, round-arched windows, otherwise blind. Modillion cornice and continuous balustrade. INTERIOR: late Neo-Classical style pump room runs the front of the building and is two storeys in height. Decoration in 7 bays, balconies, 3 ceiling roses. Turkish-style rooms to rear include octagonal, domed room with Islamic arches, dome with stained glass and 2 rose windows. Ladies' pool has red and yellow decorative brickwork, elliptically-arched arcades; modillion cornices, open trussed iron roof. (Leamington Spa Courier: 3 February 1989; Storrie J: William de Normanville: Engineer, Architect and Inventor: Royal Leamington Spa: 19-21, 22-33; Victoria County History: Warwickshire: 155; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 336).
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Source | Royal Pump Rooms & Baths, Leamington Spa |
Author | Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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