1000 year swim

Chelsea Sports Centre

Opened circa 1900


108 lengths swum on 1 August 2008

Chelsea Manor Street, Chelsea, London SW3
Listed Grade II

From the list description:

Circa 1900. Public Baths. Red brick, stone dressings. English Renaissance. Nine windows wide, with 7 window centre of 3 storeys with dormers, and lower wings. Symmetrical. Three rusticated, square-headed doors. Windows square-headed, sashed to first and second floors. Main cornice above first floor. Carved panels in stone and brick. Forms part of Town Hall/Vestry Hall complex, in the same style.

See the local authority website. (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chlesea)

 

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