Leslie Gooday | |
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Born | |
Died | 16 March 2013 | (aged 91)
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Architect |
Awards | Order of the British Empire |
Practice | Leslie Gooday & Associates |
Buildings | Pools on the Park, Richmond, London; Longwall, St George's Hill, Weybridge, Surrey (both Grade II listed) |
Leslie Gooday OBE (1921–2013) was a British architect.
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]
Gooday designed the two homes in which he lived successively with his wife Rosemary and children:[19][20]