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Title	Bath Street and Great Pump Room
View	Pump Room, central pavilion, north elevation, frontal view
Work Type	buildings societies' buildings complexes recreation areas resorts health resorts spas open spaces roads streets
Style/Period	Neoclassical
Creator Name	Baldwin, Thomas, 1750-1820
Creator Nationality	British
Subject.work	architectural exteriors architectural interiors scientific or medical Roman Empire
Subject.image	pediments columns: Corinthian
Country	United Kingdom
City	Bath
State/Province	England
Architectural Material	Bath stone
Technique	construction
Dates	1791-1792
Photographer	Gilchrist, Scott
Date Photographed	5/15/1997
Subject Information	However, the architect who carried Bath from austere Palladianism into the more delicate Neo-classical style associated with Robert Adam was Thomas Baldwin (1750-1820). Baldwin became city surveyor in 1776. In addition, Baldwin brought the light elegance of his oval paterae, ribboned festoons and sharply moulded entablatures into the centre of the city with Bath Street (1791). This was a segmental-ended thoroughfare of shops and houses set back behind Ionic colonnaded pavements that linked his Cross Bath (ca. 1786)--a small pump room replacing the medieval structure visited by Queen Mary in the 1680s--to his impressive Great Pump Room (1791-1792).
Information.source	Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/
Credit Line	© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193

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