Coate Water Diving Platform

A diving platform in Art Deco style, erected in 1935 to a design by the Swindon Borough Survey JBL Thompson in full compliance with the regulations of the Federation Internationale de Natation Amateur (FINA).

MATERIALS: reinforced steel and concrete.

EXTERIOR: the structure consists of a curved, forward leaning tower built around a central stair leading to five diving platforms of different size, shape and thickness (its measurements carefully recorded in the 1935 booklet commemorating its opening), thus offering the diver the use of both spring boards and fixed boards. The top platform contains a flagpole, and formerly each platform was enclosed by plain, tubular shaped metal railings. Since its closure, in order to stop vandalism and people climbing onto the diving platform, the arches at the foot of the diving tower have been partly infilled with concrete blocks and its lowest platform was given a concrete block parapet.