page_title: Deception Bay Sea Baths
section_title: Fisheries Bath
hierarchical_section_title: Deception Bay Sea Baths / Description / Fisheries Bath
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Deception Bay Sea Baths at Deception Bay, Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia.
context_page_description: Deception Bay Sea Baths are heritage-listed swimming pools at Captain Cook Parade, Deception Bay, Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia. They were built around the 1880s and 1890s by Joseph Bancroft. It is also known as Bancroft Sea Baths. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 4 July 2006.
context_section_description: The bath is a rectangular shape 4.3 metres (14 ft) long and 2.7 metres (8 ft 10 in) wide, with a triangular extrusion on the eastern side. This extrusion provides access to a semicircular ledge within the bath. The sides of the bath are generally perpendicular to an average depth of 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) with the exception of the ledge on the eastern side and a sloping triangular base on the northwestern corner. The base of the bath slopes to the deepest point of 1.3 metres (4 ft 3 in) off center on the southern end.
  Brick edging surrounds the bath on the south (3.9 metres (13 ft)), east (7.7 metres (25 ft)) and northern (3.4 metres (11 ft)) sides. This edging is offset from the bath, 1.7 metres (5 ft 7 in) from the southern edge, .8 metres (26 ft) from the eastern edge, and 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) from the northern edge. These bricks vary in length between 290 to 305 millimetres (11.4 to 12.0 in) and a width of 110 millimetres (4.3 in). The bricks sit is a shallow trench cut into the sandstone and fixed with a lime mortar. The height of the bricks is weathered to no more than 40 millimetres (1.6 in).
  The southeastern and northeastern extent of the bath is demarcated by two postholes cut into the sandstone. These holes are approximately 250 millimetres (9.8 in) in diameter. Another posthole demarcates the extent of the bath complex on the northwest. The western side of the bath complex is demarcated by a sandstone platform 100 millimetres (3.9 in) higher than the surrounds of the bath.
  On the southern side of the bath is a shallow trough. This trough is 70 millimetres (2.8 in) in depth, 2.9 metres (9 ft 6 in) long and 250 millimetres (9.8 in) wide.
  Notches to secure timber steps are located on the northern edge. After the 2004 survey, the remnants of the hardwood steps were left in the bath.
caption: Fisheries Bath
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