Queen Square, Bath

The north side of Queen Square in Bath is the work of John Wood the Elder. It dates from the early eighteenth century and follows the Palladian style for a grand front of a large house. The innovation here is that Wood designed the facade but he sought other builders to erect the individual dwellings behind that make this into, not a single large dwelling, but a terrace of houses.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10

Royal Crescent, Bath

The Royal Crescent is one of Bath's great Georgian terraces. It was built on on a high point overlooking the city between 1767 and 1774 by John Wood the younger, son of the architect of Queen Square. The facade is 500 feet (150m) long and features 114 Ionic columns on its first floor. Lawns and parkland form the space immediately in front of the crescent. Interestingly, in contrast with the repetitious uniformity of the front of the building the rear of each dwelling is invariably different from its neighbour.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10

The Circus, Bath

The Circus, Bath, is a circular arrangement of three curved terraces of town houses, separated by three entry roads, with a circular park area at its centre. This layout was conceived by John Wood the Elder and constructed by his son between 1754 and 1768. It is said that Wood got his idea for the circular composition from Stonehenge which he had surveyed. Its diameter closely approximates to that of the prehistoric structure.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10

River Avon and Pulteney Bridge, Bath

These days I'm very much an "incidental" photographer. What do I mean by that? Well, the OED defines it nicely, thus - "Occurring or liable to occur in fortuitous or subordinate conjunction with something else of which it forms no essential part; casual" In other words photography is secondary to the main purpose at the time. A visit to Bath involved us looking at some of the architecture that we last saw about forty five years ago. It also involved regular showers of rain and dark skies alongside sun, the latter being something that I particularly like in my images, and which prompted this shot of the River Avon and Pulteney Bridge.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10