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Considered
by some as Bath's most beautiful crescent, Lansdown
Crescent certainly has a more free-flowing shape than
the Royal Crescent. It is also higher up on the hillside
and offers some equally spectacular views to the residents.
There is generally a more rural feel to the crescent
due to the wooded area at the bottom of its steep lawn
and the sheep that often graze there. The crescent also
sweeps nicely into Somerset place just to the West.
Some Lansdown Crescent Facts:
- Lansdown
Crescent began as a single house, which today is No.
1 Lansdown Crescent.
- In
1787 The developers Messrs Spackman and Lowder advertised
for builders, describing the crescent they proposed
as "so well suited that every part of the building
will have the benefit of this pleasing distance of
country which can never be intercepted by any building."
- The
architect is sometimes said to be John Palmer, but
there is no evidence for this. It is possible that
it was John Lowder himself, a banker and "gentleman
architect".
For
more photographs and facts about Lansdown Crescent buy
"Bath: the absolute guide" coming soon.
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