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

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 Mormon Church in Balham, London, in 1979–80.[18]

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

Personal homes

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
  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
  1. "Leslie Gooday OBE". Toby Walker. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  2. "In Memoriam". RIBA Journal. June 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  3. "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. Historic England. "Richmond Baths, Old Deer Park (1246189)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  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. 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.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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