North Colonnade at Grand Pump Room Bath, England

Listed Building Data

North Colonnade at Grand Pump Room has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1395195
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
I
Date Listed
12 June 1950
Name
NORTH COLONNADE AT GRAND PUMP ROOM
Location
NORTH COLONNADE AT GRAND PUMP ROOM, STALL STREET
District
Bath and North East Somerset
Grid Reference
ST 75028 64754
Easting
375028.0000
Northing
164754.0000

Listed Building Description

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STALL STREET 656-1/41/1607 (East side) North Colonnade at Grand Pump Room

(Formerly Listed as: North Colonnade at Grand Pump Room) 12/06/50

GV I

Colonnade. 1790. By Thomas Baldwin. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, roof hidden from street, but probably lead. EXTERIOR: Open colonnade with nine bays of unfluted Ionic columns which get progressively higher towards the south to accommodate fall in ground. Columns paired at either end where it abuts No.3 Stall Street and the Grand Pump Room (qqv). Entablature with enriched pediment, breaking slightly forward over three central bays to street elevation. Pediment contains relief Sphinxes facing wreathed oval with relief of Hygeia. Parapet with blind balustrade over second and sixth bays. Elevation to Abbey Church Yard six-bays only because of Nos 6-10 Abbey Church Yard (qv). HISTORY: Part of Baldwin's Neoclassical remodelling of the City centre, which followed the Bath Improvement Act of 1789. Together with the Grand Pump Room and South Colonnade adjoining (qv), these form some of the most monumental and ambitious civic improvements of their day in the country. SOURCES: Walter Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath¿ (2nd ed. 1980), 42-44; Jane Root,Thomas Baldwin: His Public Career in Bath¿, `Bath History¿ vol. V (1994), 80-103. Sited within the Roman Baths Scheduled area ref: OCN BA 82

Listing NGR: ST7502864754