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Bath
UNESCO
world heritage sites
(
United Kingdom of Great Britain
)
Pump Room
on
Stall Street
The Grand Pump Room was built in the early 1790s, and soon became the destination for high society to meet and ‘take the waters’ from the hot springs while enjoying lavish entertainment.
The Roman Baths
on
Stall Street
The Roman Baths complex is a site of historical interest in the English city of Bath. It is a well-preserved Roman site once used for public bathing.
Abbey
on
Abbey Churchyard
Founded in the 7th century, it was reorganised in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries; major restoration work was carried out by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s. It is one of the largest examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture in the West Country.
Pulteney Bridge
on
Bridge Street
Pulteney Bridge crosses the River Avon in Bath, England. It was completed by 1774, and connected the city with the land of the Pulteney family which they wished to develop. Designed by Robert Adam in a Palladian style, it is exceptional in having shops built across its full span on both sides.
Palladian buildings
at
Queen Square
The elegant and palatial north façade of seven individual townhouses, with emphasis only on the central house to suggest a grand entrance, is heralded as Wood’s greatest triumph, but the other three wings purposefully act as foils to this ostentatious palace front. The east and west sides of the square are the wings of the ‘palace’, enclosing a forecourt.
Assembly Rooms
on
Bennett Street
The magnificent Assembly Rooms were at the centre of the social scene during the eighteenth century, when the Ball Room, Octagon, Tea Room and Card Room would have been used for dancing, card playing, tea drinking and conversation.
The Circus
at
The Circus
Originally called the King’s Circus, it was designed by English architect John Wood, the Elder. As he believed that Bath was the centre of all Druidic activity in earlier Britain, the Circus mimics Stonehenge’s layout (being only 2 metres shorter in diametre).
Royal Crescent
at
Royal Cres
The Royal Crescent is a row of 30 terraced houses laid out in a sweeping crescent in the city of Bath, England. Designed by the architect John Wood, the Younger and built between 1767 and 1774, it is among the greatest examples of Georgian architecture to be found in the United Kingdom and is a Grade I listed building.
Temple of Minerva
in
Royal Victoria Park
The pavilion, designed by Alfred J, Taylor, a local architect, was built for the British Empire Exhibition of 1924-5 at Wembley, where it served as an advertisement for the City of Bath, and in particular the Spa and the quality of its waters. Following its return to Bath the pavilion was reconstructed in 1926, when the eastern end of the Botanic Garden first laid out in 1887 within Royal Victoria Park, was extended and landscaped to accommodate it.
Lansdown Crescent
at
Lansdown Cres
It forms the central part of a string of curved terraces, including Lansdown Place East and West, and Someset Place, which were the northern-most boundary of the development of Georgian Bath.