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Royal Pump Rooms & Baths, Leamington Spa / ell brown
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| 説明 | The Royal Pump Rooms & Baths in Leamington Spa. There is now an Art Gallery in the building.Royal Pump RoomsThe 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.Royal Pump Room and Baths, Royal Leamington Spa - British Listed BuildingsSpa pump room and swimming baths. 1813-1814 with lateradditions and alterations including ladies' pool of c1870;1885; 1889; 1910; those of 1926-7 probably include sidepavilions; those of c1948 include remodelling of windows, and1956.By CS Smith of Warwick, a pupil of Sir Jeffry Wyatville andfinanced 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 extensionby W de Normanville, the Borough Engineer.Sandstone ashlar with red sandstone columns and dark greybrick plinth, slate and glass roofs.STYLE: late Classical, with Turkish-style interior.EXTERIOR: main range of 2 storeys, 9 first-floor windows, theouter bays project slightly to full height, betweensingle-tall-storey, 3-window pavilions, and with ranges torear. Pump room to main range at front with baths to rear.Ground floor has Doric colonnade: Dodecastyle centre betweendistyle with antae ranges with full entablature withtriglyphs; balustraded parapet has panels and vase-shapedbalusters. Portico has patterned tile floor. Plinth.Entrances: to outer bays are double 4-fielded-panel doors; tocentre, a shallow recess with double part-glazed doors withoverlight. Otherwise four 1/1 sashes with plain reveals.Cornice.First floor: outer bays have broad pilasters with horizontalrustication to angles. Otherwise, 8/8 sashes with tooledsurrounds.Continuous frieze, cornice, blocking course.Side ranges (alike): Doric pilasters between bays and toangles. Three 8/12 sashes with fanlights with radial glazing(that to left centre with stained glass) with pilasteredsurrounds and tooled round-arches with central keystones;tooled and chamfered sills, aprons. Balustrade of panels andvase balusters continues to returns. Hipped roofs.Pilasters and fenestration continue for 6-window bays to leftreturn.Further range to rear projects to left with Tuscan pilastersclasping angles and elliptically-arched entrance to left withboard door.To right return a similar 4-bay arcade, but first two bays areblind, then two 2/2 sashes with horns.Further range has three 2/2 sashes and three 1/1 sashes withtooled sills and plain reveals. Above these are tworound-arched openings, that to left with 12-pane, round-archedwindows, otherwise blind. Modillion cornice and continuousbalustrade.INTERIOR: late Neo-Classical style pump room runs the front ofthe building and is two storeys in height. Decoration in 7bays, balconies, 3 ceiling roses. Turkish-style rooms to rearinclude octagonal, domed room with Islamic arches, dome withstained glass and 2 rose windows. Ladies' pool has red andyellow decorative brickwork, elliptically-arched arcades;modillion cornices, open trussed iron roof.(Leamington Spa Courier: 3 February 1989; Storrie J: Williamde Normanville: Engineer, Architect and Inventor: RoyalLeamington Spa: 19-21, 22-33; Victoria County History:Warwickshire: 155; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N andWedgwood A: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 336).Took these as I returned in the direction of the Pump Rooms.Side of the Pump Rooms building |
| 撮影日 | 2011-10-22 11:24:05 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Leamington, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.014 sec (1/70) |
| 開放F値 | f/5.0 |