User:Spoonfrog/List of Georgian Crescents in Bath
The city of Bath is famous for its grand Georgian architecture, notably the Royal Crescent. The Royal Crescent was built in the 1770s and it set a trend for building curved terraces of luxury houses. There are seven Georgian crescents in Bath, built between 1767 and 1830. The Royal Crescent is technically a half-ellipse, but the other crescents are all arcs of a circle. Some of the later crescents were dogged by financial difficulties and two are incomplete; the east end of Camden Crescent was destroyed by a landslide whilst still under construction and the west end of Somerset Place was never built due to financial constraints.
Contemporary crescents outside Bath include Buxton Crescent (by John Carr, c.1790) and Lansdown Crescent in Cheltenham (by John Buonarotti Papworth, c.1830).
| Crescent | Architect | Construction Date | No. of Houses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Crescent | John Wood the Younger | c.1767-1775[1] | 30 |
| Camden Crescent | John Eveleigh | c.1788[1] | 18 (22 planned[1]) |
| Lansdown Crescent | John Eveleigh | c.1789-1793[1] | 20 |
| Somerset Place | John Eveleigh | c.1790-1820[1] | 16 (20 planned) |
| Norfolk Crescent | John Palmer / John Pinch | c.1792-1820[1] | 19 |
| Widcombe Crescent | Harcourt Masters[1] | c.1805[1] | 14 |
| Cavendish Crescent | John Pinch | c.1815-1830[1] | 11 |