Grenville Place Turkish Baths, Cork:

the original building and

the building in 2006
 

   

 

 

 The Grenville Place Turkish Baths building, Cork, in 2006  
 

< Photo: Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland

      

< Photo: Shifrin

Well before 2006, the building had been converted into an apartment block. Externally, only the front façade of the ground floor remains, and even here the original men's and women's doors have been transferred to the original window openings, and vice versa. The rounded corners also remain at the ground floor level.
 

 

 Detail of corner brickwork, ground floor, Grenville Place baths   Date plate on side wall of Grenville Place baths building  

 

< Photo: Shifrin

 

< Photo: Shifrin

 
 

These details shows the brickwork which converted the rounded corners at the first floor level into the square corners above, and the plate mounted on the left hand wall which shows the year, 1858, when the baths were originally built.

  

Victorian Turkish Baths:
their origin, development,
and gradual decline

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