Shelter At Joy Mead Recreation Ground

The shelter at Joy Mead Recreation Ground, built in 1922 by Talbot Brown and Fisher of Wellingborough, is a single-storey structure made of coursed squared ironstone with a dressed ironstone and Collyweston stone slate roof. It features a wide depressed entrance arch within an open stone porch supported by two round columns, which is elevated on two steps. The porch has low basket arches at the front and sides, with a keyblock at the front. The porch is topped with a hipped roof and is flanked by open windows at either end, which have chamfered basket arches supported by square colonnettes at the corners. Similar windows are present on the sides, along with 2-light arched mullion windows further back on either side. Datestones are located in the gables on either side. Inside, opposite the entrance arch, there is an alcove with a wide depressed arch. This alcove contains a central niche with a round arch head and a moulded stone surround, which holds an inscription commemorating Joy, the only daughter of Phillip and Georgette Agnew, who died in 1921 at the age of 22. The recreation ground and shelter are dedicated to her memory.