Piscine Saint-Georges

English translation

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History

The project to build a swimming pool dates back to 1834. Postponed, the project was resumed and entrusted to the architect Emmanuel Le Ray. The new swimming pool was planned to the north of the Saint-Georges barracks, on the site of the former church of the Saint-Georges convent. The preserved plans show a central body flanked by two pavilions, allowing the distribution of entrances and, to the east, the construction of shower baths which respond to a hygienist concern of the municipality and the architect. On the second level, the pool and changing cabins are distributed on either side of the ground floor and first floor. A gallery allows visibility towards the central pool. On the upper floor, a concrete barrel vault with penetration was filled with a false ceiling around 1970. Part of the shower cabins on the first floor were also transformed into a sauna in the 1970s. The whole of this construction is marked by the diversity of materials, between tufa, cement elements which highlight the openings, red and yellow bricks, and friezes of flamed sandstone. This creation, illustrating provincial Art Deco, is very representative of the hygienic architecture of the first half of the 20th century.