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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1998
- Type
- Public sculpture
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 78 NW BASILSON TOWN SQUARE
717/6/10009 Raised Pool and Sculpture
GV II
Pool, with sculpture immediately to the west and south of the piloti undercroft of Brooke House, 1962, Architect Anthony B Davies, chief Architect and planner to Basildon. Development Corporation; Sir Basil Spence, consultant adviser on town centre. Long rectangular pool, with raised granite-clad sides and coping, within which is set, at the east end, a bronze sculpture, 'Mother and Child', and fountain, by Maurice Lambert. The pool was designed as a foreground to Brooke House (qv). (Architectural Review: Browne K: A new look at Basildon Town Centre, November 1962: 332- 335; Planning for Man and Motor, London: Ritter P: Basildon New Town Main Centre: Pergamon Press: 1964-: 221; Architects Journal: Shops and flats at Basildon, 10 December 1962: 1962-: 1381- 9; Architect and Building News, 13 February 1963: Tower block, Basildon: 1963-: 239-43).
Listing NGR: TQ7051588589
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