NEWS! Developers are being invited to submit bids for a residential development (to include the refurbishment of the main pool) before the 9th of July. It is understood these are just monetary bids based on square footage costings rather than drawn-up schemes. The site includes the baths and the smaller baths (with permission to demolish the smaller baths) and more space beyond in site A and there is an additional site B to include the car park. The opening this weekend will have more information on all this.

The first public baths were built on the site by the Vestry of St James in 1850 and the present building, then known as The Westminster Public Baths, was started in 1928 and completed in 1931. It was built with public funds for the health and well being of local people.

The main pool is lined with white Sicilian marble and this marble and Swedish green marble are used on the walls at either end. The bronze fountain in a niche at the shallow end, depicting a merchild with two dolphins, is by Walter Gilbert.

Behind the pool is a smaller pool, the ’second class bath’ 70ft x 30ft’ which also has a barrel vaulted roof. When built the complex also included a child’s welfare centre, a public laundry and public bathing facilities, among other things

Marshall Street baths are owned by Westminster City Council and were closed by the City council in 1997.

MINUTES OF EVIDENCE, TAKEN BEFORE THE CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT COMMITTEE, TUESDAY 4 DECEMBER 2001

For the Westminster Council press release click here

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