Camden Crescent, Bath

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.[1][2] The other houses are Grade II listed.[3][4][5][6][7]

Camden Crescent
LocationBath, Somerset, England
Coordinates51°23′25″N 2°21′41″W
Built1788
ArchitectJohn Eveleigh
Listed Building – Grade I
Designated12 June 1950[1]
Reference no.442386
Location of Camden Crescent in Somerset

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 1789 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.[8] 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[1], no longer form its middle.[9] The arms of Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, for whom the crescent was named, are on the doorway keystones along with an elephant's head which was his symbol.[2][10]

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.[11]

In Jane Austen's Persuasion the Elliot family rent lodgings on Camden Place as the Crescent was then known.

See also
  • List of Grade I listed buildings in Bath and North East Somerset

References
  1. "Camden Crescent". Images of England. English Heritage. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2009.
  2. "Nos.6-21 (Consec) and attached railings and vaults". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  3. "No.1 and attached railings and vaults". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  4. "No.2 and attached railings and vaults". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  5. "No.3 and attached railings and vaults". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  6. "No.4 and attached railings and vaults". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  7. "No.5 and attached railings and vaults". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  8. "Camden Crescent". City of Bath. Archived from the original on 28 September 2008. Retrieved 26 July 2009.
  9. "Magnificent Georgian Buildings of Stone". Cotswolds Info. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  10. Forsyth, Michael (2003). Pevsner Architectural Guides: Bath. Yale University Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-0300101775.
  11. Fairfield, Letitia; Fullbrook, Eric P., eds. (1954). The Trial of John Thomas Straffen. London: William Hodge. ISBN 0-85279-023-6. OCLC 222592555.
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