Bath
- Milsom Street Area
18th century
Click photos to enlarge
Notes in italics from North Somerset and Bristol by Nikolaus Pevsner
(1958)
Yale University Press, New Haven and London |
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Milsom Street was begun in
1762, a few years after Gay Street and the Circus,
but still designed by the elder Wood
(who died in 1754). ... Originally the houses
had bowed shop fronts. ... Typical first-floor windows of Wood: straight
cornice, pediment, straight cornice. ... |
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On the right side a grander
composition, carrying on the principle of Queen
Square, though now in a position where the distance is lacking to
appreciate the uniformity of a seventeen-bay facade. This group, called
Somersetshire Buildings, is by Baldwin, 1782. ... Side and middle accents
by giant attached Corinthian columns. The centre is in addition curved
forward. ... No. 46 a little lower down has an individual and quite
different facade. It dates from c.1904.
St Michael's church in Broad Street, looking down Green St from Milsom
St. 1835-7 by G.P. Manners. Early English motifs of stepped lancet windows
etc. |
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The bottom of Milsom Street runs
into Old Bond Street. Wood's houses on the right, c.1760-9, and a narrow range
with Venetian windows on the left of c.1780. The end facade has a niche
with a marble putto, and above, the royal coat of arms in Coade stone.
The Royal York Hotel in George Street (third picture)
is by the
younger Wood 1765-9. George Street runs along the top of Milsom Street (see
middle picture in top row).
In Quiet Street running off Milsom Street the former bazaar, latest
Georgian, of nine bays with a three-bay centre holding an Adamish
tripartite arched window. ... |
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General Hospital (Royal
Mineral Water Hospital), Upper Boro' Walls. Built by the elder Wood in 1737-42.
(He gave his services gratuitously, Ralph Allen donated
the stone and Beau Nash organized subscriptions.) Originally
two-storeyed (the attic storey was added in 1790). Eleven bays long, with
a three-bay attached portico. The unfluted Ionic columns rise from the
ground floor and carry a pediment. A new block of mildy similar design was
put up to the right in 1850-9 by Manners & Gill (last
three pictures - the carving within the
pediment is of the Good Samaritan.). |
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