Camden Crescent, Bath
| Camden Crescent | |
|---|---|
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| Location | Bath, Somerset, England |
| Coordinates | 51°23′25″N 2°21′41″W / 51.39028°N 2.36139°W |
| Built | 1788 |
| Architect | John Eveleigh |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
| Official name | Nos. 6-21 and attached railings and vaults |
| Designated | 12 June 1950[1] |
| Reference no. | 1395191 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Official name | No.1 and attached railings and vaults |
| Designated | 12 June 1950[2] |
| Reference no. | 1395176 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Official name | No.2 and attached railings and vaults |
| Designated | 12 June 1950[3] |
| Reference no. | 1395178 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Official name | No.3 and attached railings and vaults |
| Designated | 12 June 1950[4] |
| Reference no. | 1395185 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Official name | No.4 and attached railings and vaults |
| Designated | 12 June 1950[5] |
| Reference no. | 1395188 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Official name | No.5 and attached railings and vaults |
| Designated | 12 June 1950[6] |
| Reference no. | 1395190 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Official name | The Lodge and attached wall, lamp and railings |
| Designated | 5 August 1975[7] |
| Reference no. | 1395205 |
  Location of Camden Crescent in Somerset | |
Camden Crescent in Bath, Somerset, England, was built by John Eveleigh in 1788; it was originally known as Upper Camden Place. Numbers 6 to 21 have been designated as a Grade I listed buildings.[8][1] The other houses are Grade II listed.[2][3][4][5][6]
The houses are of three storeys, with attics and basements. At the southern end of the crescent the basements are at ground level because of the contours of the land. In 1889 a landslide demolished 9 houses at the east end of the crescent. The remains of the houses were demolished and removed to allow Hedgemead Park to be built.[9] This means that the two paired doors of numbers 16 and 17, which stand beneath a pediment supported by five Corinthian columns at what would have been the centre of the crescent,[8] no longer form its middle.[10] The arms of Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, after whom the crescent was named, are on the doorway keystones along with an elephant's head which was his symbol.[1][11]
In July 1951 Number 1 Camden Crescent was the scene of an abduction when John Straffen took five-year-old Brenda Goddard and later killed her.[12]
In Jane Austen's Persuasion (1818), the Elliot family rent lodgings on Camden Place, as the Crescent was then known. In Georgette Heyer's Lady of Quality (1972), which is set in Regency era Bath, her heroine Annis Wychwood owns one of the houses there.
See also
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- ^ a b c "Nos.6-21 (Consec) and attached railings and vaults". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
- ^ a b "No.1 and attached railings and vaults". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
- ^ a b "No.2 and attached railings and vaults". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
- ^ a b "No.3 and attached railings and vaults". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
- ^ a b "No.4 and attached railings and vaults". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
- ^ a b "No.5 and attached railings and vaults". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
- ^ Historic England. "The Lodge and attached wall, lamp and railings (1395205)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
- ^ a b "Camden Crescent". Images of England. English Heritage. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2009.
- ^ "Camden Crescent". City of Bath. Archived from the original on 28 September 2008. Retrieved 26 July 2009.
- ^ "Magnificent Georgian Buildings of Stone". Cotswolds Info. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
- ^ Forsyth, Michael (2003). Pevsner Architectural Guides: Bath. Yale University Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-0300101775.
- ^ Fairfield, Letitia; Fullbrook, Eric P., eds. (1954). The Trial of John Thomas Straffen. London: William Hodge. ISBN 0-85279-023-6. OCLC 222592555.