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Leslie Gooday

Leslie Gooday OBE (1921–2013) was a British architect.

Leslie Gooday
Born(1921-06-14)14 June 1921
Croydon
Died16 March 2013(2013-03-16) (aged 91)
NationalityBritish
OccupationArchitect
AwardsOrder of the British Empire
PracticeLeslie Gooday & Associates
BuildingsPools on the Park, Richmond, London; Longwall, St George's Hill, Weybridge, Surrey (both Grade II listed)

Biography edit

Gooday was born in the former Croydon registration district of Surrey on 14 June 1921.[1] Elected to the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1951,[2] he assisted Hugh Casson in designing the boating-pool and leisure area at the 1951 Festival of Britain on London's South Bank.[3]

He designed, in 1961,[4] the Grade II listed[5] Richmond Baths, now known as Pools on the Park, a swimming pool and leisure facility in Old Deer Park in Richmond, London. Completed in 1966,[6][7] it received a Civic Trust award in 1967[5][8] and is recognised by Historic England as illustrating "the more ambitious use of glazed curtain walling and the post-Wolfenden Report[nb 1] emphasis on providing large banks of spectator seating".[9]

His architectural practice, Leslie Gooday & Associates, based in East Molesey,[2][10] Surrey, was appointed in 1967 to design the British pavilion at the Japan World Exposition at Osaka in 1970.[11]

In 1956 he designed two houses in post-war modernism in Ham Farm Road,[12] Ham, London[13] which were cited by Nikolaus Pevsner as representative of the "quiet elegance of the modern style of the fifties".[14] He also designed houses in other parts of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, the London Borough of Croydon, Surrey and East Sussex.[15] The Bosphorus House in Kippington Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, that he designed in the 1960s, was described in the local volume of The Buildings of England in 1983 as "ingenious".[16][17] He made alterations to the Latter-day Saint church building in Balham, London, in 1979–80.[18]

He died on 16 March 2013.[3][19]

Personal homes edit

Gooday designed the two homes in which he lived successively with his wife Rosemary and children:[19][20]

  • 36 West Temple Sheen, East Sheen, London
  • Longwall (built 1964–66) St George's Hill, Weybridge, Surrey – described in its statutory listing in the initial (Grade II) category as "perhaps his most successful work".[21][22]

Note edit

  1. ^ The Wolfenden Report referred to in this instance is that of the Committee on Sport & the Community, chaired by John Wolfenden, whose report, commissioned by the Central Council of Physical Recreation, reported in 1960. "Sport & the Community: the report of the Wolfenden committee on Sport 1960". Sports Development. 2 September 2012. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2013.

References edit

  1. ^ "About Leslie Gooday". Toby Walker. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b "In Memoriam". RIBA Journal. 1 June 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2021. Gooday's death is listed at the end of the article.
  3. ^ a b "Shot Tower, boating-pool and riverside pavilions, Festival of Britain, South Bank, London". Gallery. RIBA. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  4. ^ Cherry and Pevsner, p.93
  5. ^ a b Historic England (16 January 1996). "Richmond Baths, Old Deer Park (1246189)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  6. ^ Cherry and Pevsner, p.520
  7. ^ "The Old Deer Park, Richmond – A Framework for Conservation and Development" (PDF). Friends of Richmond Green and others. June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
  8. ^ Played in Britain (2015). "28.14 Pools on the Park". Played in London: a directory of historic sporting assets in London. English Heritage, now Historic England. p. 139. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  9. ^ "Sports and Recreation Buildings". Designating Heritage Assets. Historic England. December 2012. p. 7. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
  10. ^ "Leslie Gooday & Associates". Find Kingston. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  11. ^ "Designers for the Japan world fair". Design Journal (231): 23. 1967.
  12. ^ Martin, Hugh; Anderson, Dave. "Building 8692". UK House Database. Cambridge 2000. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  13. ^ Cherry and Pevsner, p.476
  14. ^ Cherry and Pevsner, p.92
  15. ^ Martin, Hugh; Anderson, Dave. "Leslie Gooday & Associates". UK House Database. Cambridge 2000. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  16. ^ Martin, Hugh; Anderson, Dave. "Building 581". UK House Database. Cambridge 2000. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  17. ^ Newman, John (1983). The Buildings of England – North East and East Kent (Third ed.). Penguin Books. p. 121. ISBN 0-14-071039-6.
  18. ^ Cherry and Pevsner, p.664
  19. ^ a b Gooday, Max (March 2013). "Leslie Gooday O.B.E." The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  20. ^ Architect's house, 36 West Temple Sheen, East Sheen, London: the entrance patio. RIBA. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  21. ^ Historic England (15 July 1998). "Long Wall, and Retaining Walls (1375675)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  22. ^ Nairn, Ian and Pevsner, Nikolaus (1971). The Buildings of England – Surrey (Second ed.). London: Penguin Books. p. 520. ISBN 0-300-096-75-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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