The eighteenth century architecture of Bath (1904)
Green, Mowbray A. (Mowbray Aston) · Bath, G. Gregory · leaf 274
10S THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE OK BATH. three of these he was employed to design buildings to accommodate those who came to drink the waters, but of which there are now no remains. The earliest of these designs was the Portico of the “ Lime Kiln Spaw.” The medicinal value of this water had… … a dwelling house near it”: but almost immediately afterwards, Sir Phillip Parker Long contrived to draw off some of the water to his meadow land below, and there built a small portico for the shelter of those who came to drink ; “ and thus the Lime-Kiln-Spaw was divided in its infancy into the…
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