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Mounts Baths

1936 establishments in EnglandArt Deco architecture in EnglandBuildings and structures in NorthamptonGrade II listed buildings in NorthamptonshireSwimming venues in England
Upper Mounts, Northampton (geograph 3532709)
Upper Mounts, Northampton (geograph 3532709)

Mounts Baths is a swimming pool in Northampton, England. Built in 1936, it is notable for its Art Deco style. It is a Grade II listed building, listed on 28 January 2013. It is regarded by Historic England as "a particularly good example of a Modern Movement swimming pool".

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Mounts Baths

Upper Mounts
NN1 3DN , Semilong
England, United Kingdom
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Upper Mounts, Northampton (geograph 3532709)
Upper Mounts, Northampton (geograph 3532709)
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Northampton War Memorial
Northampton War Memorial

Northampton War Memorial, officially the Town and County War Memorial, is a First World War memorial on Wood Hill in the centre of Northampton, the county town of Northamptonshire, in central England. Designed by architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, it is a Stone of Remembrance flanked by twin obelisks draped with painted stone flags standing in a small garden in what was once part of the churchyard of All Saints' Church. Discussion of a war memorial for Northampton began shortly after the armistice in 1918, and from July 1919 a temporary wooden cenotaph stood on Abington Street in the town centre. The Northamptonshire War Memorial Committee commissioned Lutyens to design a permanent memorial. The monument's design was completed and approved quickly, but its installation was delayed by six years until the site could be purchased from the Church of England, which required a faculty from the local diocese. The memorial was finally unveiled on 11 November 1926 after a service and a parade including local schoolchildren and civic leaders. Northampton's memorial is one of the more elaborate town memorials in England. It uses three features characteristic of Lutyens's war memorials: a pair of obelisks, the Stone of Remembrance (which Lutyens designed for the Imperial War Graves Commission), and painted stone flags on the obelisks, which were rejected for his Cenotaph in London but feature on several of his other memorials. Today it is a Grade I listed building; it was upgraded from Grade II in 2015 when Lutyens's war memorials were declared a "national collection" and all were granted listed building status or had their listing renewed.