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An attractive example of interwar leisure architecture was designed by architect William Pearce and built in 1935 by local builders Edward Godwin & Sons (who also built St Martha's RC Church Little Common and Christchurch Methodist Church, Sidley).


An attractive example of interwar leisure architecture was designed by architect William Pearce and built in 1935 by local builders Edward Godwin & Sons (who also built St Martha's RC Church Little Common and Christchurch Methodist Church, Sidley). It has a plinth of red brick with rendered upper elevations, half-timbered gables and a clock-within-a-gable on the south elevation. It served as a pavilion for both tennis and bowls, once home to the Spartan Bowling Club and the Lakeside Ladies Bowling Club who amalgamated in 2016, the club closed in 2024.
It has a plinth of red brick with rendered upper elevations, half-timbered gables and a clock-within-a-gable on the south elevation. It served as a pavilion for both tennis and bowls, once home to the Spartan Bowling Club and the Lakeside Ladies Bowling Club who amalgamated in 2016, the club closed in 2024.


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Latest revision as of 16:35, 3 June 2025

Sports Pavilion, Egerton Park
LL ref: 365
Start date: 1935
Architect: William Pearce
Builder: Edward Godwin and Sons
Original use: Leisure
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An attractive example of interwar leisure architecture was designed by architect William Pearce and built in 1935 by local builders Edward Godwin & Sons (who also built St Martha's RC Church Little Common and Christchurch Methodist Church, Sidley).

It has a plinth of red brick with rendered upper elevations, half-timbered gables and a clock-within-a-gable on the south elevation. It served as a pavilion for both tennis and bowls, once home to the Spartan Bowling Club and the Lakeside Ladies Bowling Club who amalgamated in 2016, the club closed in 2024.