Salford’s Greengate Baths have found themselves on the Victorian Society’s list of the ten most endangered buildings in the country.
The baths which date from 1855, designed by Thomas Worthington who was also responsible for the Albert Memorial and Memorial House in Albert Square and the former Nicholls hospital in Ardwick,,says the society:
“Action must be taken to save this rare survival of a handsome early public baths.”
They join nine other properties across the country including Cardiff’s Coal Exchange, Trentham Hall near Stoke on Trent and the Crimean War monument in Sheffield, following a national appeal for nominations.
The Grade II listed building says the Society is a rare surviving example of early purpose built public baths by one of Manchester’s greatest architects.
It is calling on Salford Council to act now to secure its future after decades of neglect and hopes that plans contained within the Greengate Regeneration Strategy, to create a new ‘pocket park’ outside the Baths and a new boulevard linking Greengate Square with Greengate Baths, will help save the building.
Other buildings nominated by the public for inclusion in the Top Ten included Stanley Grove School in Manchester, which is under threat of demolition, and Crossleys Lads Club, Openshaw, Manchester where a local boys’ boxing club closed recently.
