IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Darlington Street, BATH, BA2 4EA

The December Snow in bath at the corner of Great Pulteney Street taken from Sydney Gardens

Stately houses of four storeys plus basement. Rusticated ground floor and typical embellishment of the middle first-floor window. By John Pinch the Elder, c1818. Grade II listed.

A spectacular house concluding the terrace (Image]), the main front pedimented, a bowed entrance bay with a very grand doorcase of paired Doric columns and frieze of garlands and metopes, and a further bow making the west front broadly symmetrical.

A grand terrace of imposing four-storey houses, the end houses pedimented (Image]), and the central one (behind the scaffolding). Another good example of how to make for a smooth transition on sloping ground by curving up the horizontal mouldings (Image]). By John Pinch the Elder, 1804-08. Grade I listed.

To avoid staccato breaks in the houses as the terrace climbs the slope, the cornice and other horizontal bands are curved up between houses. This was a common device among Bath's Georgian builders. Full view: Image

This photograph shows were Sydney Place meets Great Pulteney Street. This famous street was designed by Thomas Baldwin in 1788 and is situated east of the city centre. Measuring a 1000 feet long and 100 feet wide the individual terraced houses were built by different builders over a period of about five years. Named after the daughter of Sir William Pulteney, Henrietta Laura (1766-1808) who was his heiress and so became the Countess of Bath.

On the right is St Mary's Church, built in 1814-20 in the style of a Somerset gothic church. To its left is a terrace on Vane Street, with terraces around Great Pulteney Street behind. The hedged area with a green pavilion is a croquet lawn. Beyond an area of suburban Bathwick, and the River Avon, are the long terraces on London Road, the A4, largely in ST7566 and ST7666. On the left, straddling the gridline between the two (its tower is in the former) is St Saviour's church in Walcot, a church in the same style as St Masry's, built some 15 years later.

This church was consecrated in 1820; the architect was John Pinch. 'Intended as a focus of the incomplete Bathwick New Town. In Perpendicular Gothic and bristling with pinnacles. ... Pinch modelled the West tower on the Somerset churches, in particular St. John the Baptist, Batheaston.' (Michael Forsyth, Bath Pevsner Architectural Guide) http://bathwickparishes.org/stmarys/history/

Centre distance is Bathwick Hill leading to the University beyond on Claverton Down. Lansdown Crescent nearer to the left.