Raised Pool and Sculpture is a Grade II listed building in the Basildon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1998. Public sculpture.
Raised Pool and Sculpture
- WRENN ID
- floating-facade-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Basildon
- Constituency
- Basildon and Billericay MP: Mr Richard Holden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1998
- Type
- Public sculpture
- Address
- Raised Pool and Sculpture, Town Square
- OS grid reference
- TQ 705 885
- Coordinates
- 51.57039, 0.45906
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The raised pool and sculpture, completed in 1962, is located in the town square of Basildon, designed by architect Anthony B Davies, who was the chief architect and planner for the Basildon Development Corporation, with consultant adviser Sir Basil Spence. The long rectangular pool features raised granite-clad sides and coping. At the east end of the pool, there is a bronze sculpture titled 'Mother and Child' by Maurice Lambert, which also includes a fountain. The pool serves as a foreground to Brooke House.
Local climate
Raised Pool and Sculpture sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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