The corridor is one of the oldest parts of the Royal Pump Rooms. It was built in 1814 along the back of the Assembly Rooms and rooms on either side of the corridor contained hot or cold baths, each with their own changing rooms.

You can see the doors to the six main treatment rooms which remained by the 1870s, where patients were mainly treated for rheumatism or stomach complaints. Treatments included massages with water under the Vichy or Aix Douche systems, saline baths, and electric, light, heat and paraffin wax treatments. Men and women were strictly separated until the 1960s.

By the late 1960s patients were give exercises to help cure themselves. The rooms were knocked together for use as a gymnasium.

Although known as the 'marble' corridor, the walls are actually covered with tiles moulded to look like marble. They were probably installed when the building was redecorated in 1926.

Timeline
Assembly Rooms
Annexe
Medical or Marble Corridor
Hammam
Ladies Pool
De Normanville Swimming Pool