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Morford Street, BATH, BA1 2RD

It took me some time to identify this street (which was mis-named in my index) because much of it has been demolished and replaced by modern buildings https://goo.gl/maps/pVCcogJ7wSHA69zZ9 . The remaining old buildings on the left hand side were built between 1775 and 1789 and are individually Listed Grade II.

Viewed across Julian Road opposite Christ Church. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3204656 Jaguar House is on the left. Christchurch Hall is on the right.

Built as a royal tennis court by Richard Scrase, 1777, and a museum since 1969. Grade II listed. "The centrepiece of the Museum, covering an entire floor, is the reconstructed engineering and soft drinks factory of Victorian businessman J B Bowler."

Located on the north side of Julian Road and Christ Church. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3204656 Built in 1856 in the Tudorbethan style as the vicarage for Christ Church. Now two houses. The Museum of Bath at Work is on the left.

This is in a former real tennis court and includes the contents of the former Bowler's carbonated mineral water works. This engine was built by Bowlers.

Christ Church is an Anglican church in the diocese of Bath and Wells. The church was consecrated in November 1798. This view is across Julian Road, from the corner of Rivers Street.

Viewed across Julian Road. The church tower http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3204656 is in the background. Christ Church is an Anglican church in the diocese of Bath and Wells. The church was consecrated in November 1798.

Taken from the steps of The Work Museum

This church was consecrated in 1798. It is unusual in being a Church of England proprietary chapel, not a parish church, now one of only a handful of such places of worship remaining. From the church website http://www.christchurchbath.org/ : "Christ Church was founded at the end of the 18th century in the fashionable, prosperous city of Bath, a city very attractive to the wealthy visitors who took the waters and engaged in a variety of pleasurable activities. The city’s churches prospered by charging pew rents, which meant, however, that the poorer people could not afford to attend church. To remedy this, a group of socially inclined men opened a voluntary subscription fund to build a new church in which the ground floor should provide seating free of charge for any who wished to attend services, while the gallery seats would be let at a price sufficient to pay clergy and other staff. Early supporters included the Archbishop of Canterbury, the great evangelical and campaigner against slavery William Wilberforce, and Martin Stafford Smith, godfather of John Keble, a founder of the Oxford Movement. When it was completed in 1798, Christ Church was a typical late 18th century 'preaching house', with a gallery, a central pulpit and a small free-standing altar. About 70 years later, after the influence of the Oxford Movement and in a typical act of Victorian exuberance, the house next to the east end of the church was bought and demolished to make way for a large apse, in a much more Catholic style. Christ Church today is defined as a proprietary chapel, sometimes known with slight amusement as a 'Peculiar in Ordinary', owned by a charitable Trust. It lies geographically within the Parish of St Swithin’s, Walcot, but has no organisational link to that church beyond St Swithin’s having a representative on the Trustees."

The small white house, number 31A Rivers Street, looks like a later addition to the row of houses, a supposition supported by the A suffix in its number. Behind it and above it, there is a faded inscription on the side wall of number 31 Rivers Street. It is ESTD. 1798 OLD RED HOUSE RIVERS STREET.