070716.Bathwick, Raby Place

July 16, 2007 at 12:39 pm | In Architecture, Bath, Bathwick, Chisel Marks, Light and Shadow, doorways, somerset |

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Click here for a section without an added balcony but with all the restored/original sill windows (without Victorian plate glass).
On Bathwick Hill Road immediately after St. Mary the Virgin Church (and thus on the slope Bathwick Hill) lies Raby Place, designed by John Pinch the Elder between 1818-1825. The street name was originally Church Street (and remains so on my really outdated ordinance map). This series of eighteen two-bay terrace houses features Pinch’s famous design of a ramped cornice, similar to what can be found on a staircase banister and equally appropriate when one tries climbing this hill while carrying a litre of milk and some groceries. (Also see the same ramped cornice detailing on Cavendish Place, also by Pinch)

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  1. great place….makes me wanna go…

    Comment by travelphilippines — July 16, 2007 #

  2. The light is fantastic, you were so fortunate to be in the right place at the right time!
    Nice work.

    South Shields Daily Photo

    Comment by Curly — July 16, 2007 #

  3. [...] just a bit of iron, the stone has a warm creamy color that positively glows at sunrise and sunset. Like Italy, almost the entire place is constructed with the same material, so the color surrounds [...]

    Pingback by 070720.Combe Down, Weathered Timber Throughout the Day « Bath Daily Photo — July 23, 2007 #

  4. I spent three weeks stripping paint from the staircase of number 5 Raby Place last year- and still have the paint stripper burn scars to prove it! will never forget this place!

    Comment by Sally Brownlow — September 14, 2007 #

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