| Bath
- Abbey Area 18th century Click photos to enlarge |
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| An elliptically arched 'bridge' over York Street through which was piped hot water from the Queen's Bath (left) to the Bath City Laundry (right). The laundry is an adaptation in 1887-8 by C.E. Davis of a dissenting chapel. An ornate fluted chimney rises from an arcaded and pedimented square base. Facade of unfluted Ionic pilasters on the ground floor, fluted pilasters above on consoles with animal heads. | ||||
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Sally Lunn's House, 3 North
Parade Passage. A basically medieval
house, part of the Duke of Kingston's premises in 1480
(and so claims to be the oldest house in Bath). The present
appearance is C17, four-storeyed with gables and sash-windows. |
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Abbey Green, an irregularly shaped square with a big plane tree. It occupies the site of the monastic buildings south of the abbey. The elliptical rusticated arch between the Green and Abbey Gate Street is of 1973 by the city architect. Fourth picture shows the north side of Abbey Green. To the left of it Abbey Street contains a Palladian three-bay house of 1756, probably by Thomas Jelly. |
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General Wade's House in
Abbey Church Yard, possibly by Thomas Greenway, or by Wade himself ... of c.1720, that is pre-Wood, but has above its
altered ground floor a fine display of five giant fluted Corinthian
pilasters. Handsomely carved garlands in the spaces between the first- and
second-floor windows. ... |
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| The
Abbey More Bath |
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