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The Royal Crescent
COUNTRY
United Kingdom
ADDRESS
16 Royal Cres, Bath BA1 2LS, United Kingdom
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About The Royal Crescent
The Royal Crescent is one the greatest architecture in United kingdom located in Bath city England. It was designed by the famous architect John Wood, the younger during 1767 and 1774. It consists of 30 terraced housed joined together in an arch shape called crescent. This crescent is around 500m long and has around 114 columns on the first floor in a palladian style.
Some Lesser Known Facts About The Royal Crescent
- Numerous famous people have resided in the Royal Crescent. The 30 townhouses are divided into 18 flats, 10 big full-size townhouses, one Royal Crescent Museum, and one big Royal Crescent Hotel and Spa at the center. Earlier the Royal Crescent was simply known as "The Crescent" but when Prince Frederick, Duke of York, and Albany had stayed there it became popular as Royal Crescent.
- The famous place in Connaught Place, New Delhi, India built by Robert Tor Russell is inspired from the design of The Royal Crescent.
- During the II World War, the German army caused measure damage to the Royal Crescent. The houses, circus and assembly rooms were destroyed. When the world war was over, it was redeveloped and transformed into Council offices.
- The Royal Crescent is around 500 feet long that has each building of 50 feet. The ground floor contains 114 columns which are around 30 inches thick and 47 feet long. At the base it also has the central house which was used as a residence.
- The houses in The Royal Crescent are not similar to each other in designs, it is because the different houses were built by the different architects.
- The resident of house number 22 in The Royal Crescent, Miss Wellesley got her house's main door colored in yellow rather than the traditional white. For which she had to fight orders from Bath City Council, later it was declared that the color of the door could remain yellow.
- The first resident of The Royal Crescent was Thomas Brock who was town clerk of Chester, after his name the Brock street is named. His sister Elizabeth married the architect of the Royal Crescent John Wood, the younger.
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