Bath
- the Baths area
18th century
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Notes in italics from North Somerset and Bristol by Nikolaus Pevsner
(1958)
Yale University Press, New Haven and London |
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Pump Room, Abbey Churchyard. (The
block to the right of the colonnade).1789-99 by Baldwin,
completed after Baldwin's dismissal by Palmer. Seven bays with a
three-bay portico of giant Corinthian columns rising from the ground and
carrying a pediment which remains below the main intermittently
balustraded parapet. Large arched upper windows in the angle bays. ... The
colonnade, a nine-bay composition of unfluted Ionic columns, with a
three-bay pediment. It screens Stall Street from the Abbey Churchyard. ...
The side elevation of the Pump Room is particularly successful. Three bays
only, with a ground floor completely windowless, but made interesting by
vermiculated rustication and four strongly modelled paterae. Above three
slender pedimented niches between four pairs of coupled unfluted
Corinthian columns. The weak S end of the King's Bath colonnade is by C.E.
Davis 1889. |
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Bath Street leads from the King's
Bath to the Cross Bath. Between the two Bath Street runs with
colonnades of unfluted Ionic columns on both sides. They open into a
semicircle to embrace the Cross Bath ... The scheme was designed by
Baldwin, and building started in 1791. The facades above the colonnades
are simple, but the tripartite pedimented windows are a clear sign of late
C18 date.
Cross Bath. Part of the Bath Street design. ... Baldwin's Cross
Bath of c.1784 (altered by Palmer 1798) has remarkably Baroque facades,
that to Bath Street with a central double curve, that to the N with
straight side parts cambered back towards the middle where a colonnaded
segmental projection forms the main accent. The interior was
originally open to the sky. Corinthian columns and charming Adamish
detail.
Behind the Cross Bath is the rear facade of John Wood House, 1727, one
of John Wood the Elder's earliest commissions. Restored in 1991 without
the lime render previously used to resemble ashlar. Archway with Roman
Doric columns and pediment. |
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St Michael Within. Behind the Cross Bath. This is the chapel of St
John's Hospital. Rebuilt in 1723 by William Killigrew. Two-storeyed
windows, segment-headed and circular. Altered in the C19 and provided with
deplorable Venetian tracery.
Hot Baths (close
to Cross Bath, see picture). One-storeyed, Portico with two
pairs of Tuscan columns with pediment. ... The younger Wood built the Bath
in 1776-8. It is his only civic building.
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