The beauty of Bath
The Royal Crescent, the glorious Georgian sweep of 30 terraced houses in the British city of Bath, Somerset.
Designed by architect John Wood the Younger and built in Bath stone (limestone) between 1767 and 1774.
The crescent runs for 150 m and has 114 Ionic columns on the first floor with an entablature in a Palladian style above.
In the late 19th century five cast iron lamp columns with decorative scrollwork were added, which try as I might I could not achieve an angle without one in it.
However, it was nice to have the sun push through the clouds on this winter day and light up the stone so beautifully.
The crescent is a Grade I listed building.
No. 1 Royal Crescent is a historic house museum, owned and maintained by the Bath Preservation Trust, to illustrate how wealthy owners of the late 18th century might have furnished and occupied such a house.
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The beauty of Bath
The Royal Crescent, the glorious Georgian sweep of 30 terraced houses in the British city of Bath, Somerset.
Designed by architect John Wood the Younger and built in Bath stone (limestone) between 1767 and 1774.
The crescent runs for 150 m and has 114 Ionic columns on the first floor with an entablature in a Palladian style above.
In the late 19th century five cast iron lamp columns with decorative scrollwork were added, which try as I might I could not achieve an angle without one in it.
However, it was nice to have the sun push through the clouds on this winter day and light up the stone so beautifully.
The crescent is a Grade I listed building.
No. 1 Royal Crescent is a historic house museum, owned and maintained by the Bath Preservation Trust, to illustrate how wealthy owners of the late 18th century might have furnished and occupied such a house.
© All rights reserved.