Getting to the church in style

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Getting to the church in style

Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 26 May 2021

When Scott and Moffatt designed the original Somerset and Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum in the 1840s, they did so in a particularly grand and stylish manner. They put a church at the centre of the site and also created two archways to link both as they crossed the road below.

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Image Location

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51.216169
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-2.615601