Camden Crescent, Bath

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Camden Crescent
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Location Bath, Somerset, England
Coordinates 51°23′25″N2°21′41″W / 51.39028°N 2.36139°W / 51.39028; -2.36139
Built1788
Architect John Eveleigh
Listed Building – Grade I
Official nameNos. 6-21 and attached railings and vaults
Designated12 June 1950 [1]
Reference no.1395191
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameNo.1 and attached railings and vaults
Designated12 June 1950 [2]
Reference no.1395176
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameNo.2 and attached railings and vaults
Designated12 June 1950 [3]
Reference no.1395178
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameNo.3 and attached railings and vaults
Designated12 June 1950 [4]
Reference no.1395185
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameNo.4 and attached railings and vaults
Designated12 June 1950 [5]
Reference no.1395188
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameNo.5 and attached railings and vaults
Designated12 June 1950 [6]
Reference no.1395190
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameThe Lodge and attached wall, lamp and railings
Designated5 August 1975 [7]
Reference no.1395205
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Location of Camden Crescent in Somerset

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. [8] [1] The other houses are Grade II listed. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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 1889 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. [9] 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, [8] no longer form its middle. [10] The arms of Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, after whom the crescent was named, are on the doorway keystones along with an elephant's head which was his symbol. [1] [11]

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. [12]

In Jane Austen's Persuasion (1818), the Elliot family rent lodgings on Camden Place, as the Crescent was then known. In Georgette Heyer's Lady of Quality (1972), which is set in Regency era Bath, her heroine Annis Wychwood owns one of the houses there.

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