Museum of Bath Architecture
Gothic Revival Methodist chapel of 1765 turned museum of Georgian building, with a scale city model.
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This guide to the Museum of Bath Architecture, housed in the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel, starts with a sharp-tongued visitor: Horace Walpole, who came to Bath in the autumn of seventeen sixty-six and went to hear John Wesley preach. It brings in Selina Hastings, the Methodist countess who built a chapel in the middle of a pleasure-seeking spa town, and the rule that shaped its domestic front. Best heard on the pavement facing the battlemented house front.
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