Architecture in Bath


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The Royal Crescent
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Town design

According to Georgian practices in town design, architects would use geometrical shapes such as the Circus or the Crescent.

 

 

Architectural decoration

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Ionic order
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The architectural forms and the orders of architecture would be combined in significant decorative and symbolic patterns.

In later developments, façades had to be adapted to the inner arrangement of the dwellings.

 

 

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