Alfred William Stephens Cross (1858–1932)[1] was a British architect.
Alfred William Stephens Cross
From 1889 to 1899 he was in partnership with Henry Spalding as Spalding and Cross, taking part in many competitions for building design. Cross and his son (Kenneth Mervyn Baskerville Cross, 1890–1968) became specialised in designs for public baths.
Photo taken in 1896 of Dulwich Public Baths (now Dulwich Leisure Centre).Illustration from Public Baths and Wash Houses (1906) showing the ideal laundry layout in a public wash house.
Schools at Finchley, Poplar, Gospel Oak and Kentish Town
Public Library Deptford
Cross, Alfred W S, History of architecture, I.C.S. reference library, London, International Correspondence Schools, OCLC7067813
Cross, Alfred William Stephens (1906), Public baths and wash-houses: a treatise on their planning, design, arrangement, and fitting, having special regard to the acts arranging for their provision, with chapters on Turkish, Russian, and other special baths, public laundries, engineering, heating, water supply, etc, Batsford
Cross, Alfred W S (1910), The crowning quality of architecture, Cooper, Wettern & Co., OCLC80997438
Cross, Alfred W S; Cross, Kenneth M B (1930), Modern public baths and wash-houses: [illust.], London, OCLC220978759
Coventry Baths were damaged during the blitz of 1940 and demolished in 1966. The only remaining evidence of the building can be found in the car park opposite the current Coventry Central Baths on Fairfax Street (opened in 1966), which has a small brick block which housed the filtration tanks (Gordon & Inglis 2009, p.240).
Gray, Alexander Stuart; Breach, Jean; Breach, Nicholas (1986), Edwardian architecture: a biographical dictionary, University of Iowa Press, p.157, ISBN978-0-87745-136-5
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