Thirty townhouses curve into a massive crescent of honey-colored Bath stone, their uniform facade anchored by over one hundred Ionic columns. John Wood the Younger designed this architectural sweep in the seventeen sixties to capture the essence of a Roman circus. When Henry Sandford moved into number twelve in seventeen seventy-six, he famously forbade his maid from looking out the front windows. He insisted she focus on her chores instead of the carriages and aristocrats parading through the grassy meadow below.
The Royal Crescent
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