Survey Data
Reg No
14942026
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Cultural, Social, Technical
Original Use
Sports hall/centre/gymnasium
Date
1930 - 1950
Coordinates
209783, 190100
Date Recorded
01/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached seven-bay two-storey former sports pavilion, built c.1940, with central clock tower, flanking entrance porches and shower-block to south. Now disused. Set within grounds of Mount Saint Joseph College. Flat roof hidden by castellated parapet. Pitched slate and corrugated sheeting roof with lantern to shower block. Rendered walls with string courses and plinth course. Metal casement windows with tooled stone sills. Replacement glazed aluminium doors to porches. Timber battened doors to rear of shower block. Double handball alley abuts rear elevation. Glazed wall tiles and terrazzo floor to interior. Metal ceiling trusses and showers to shower-block. Concrete stairs with timber newel posts, handrails and wrought-iron balusters.
Appraisal
The castellated sports pavilion, overlooking the playing fields of Mount Saint Joseph College, is a fine example of mid twentieth-century design. Its symmetrical façade with clean vertical and horizontal lines is decorated with crenellations and a square-profiled clock tower. Attention to detail is continued inside with the handsome use of contemporary materials including glazed wall tiles and colourful terrazzo floors. The shower block is particularly notable due to the sunken floor, metal ceiling trusses and freestanding showers. Although disused the sports pavilion continues to express a charming character.