National Trust - Bath Assembly Rooms
Georgian ballroom, tea room and octagon lit by original eighteenth-century crystal chandeliers.
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This guide to the Assembly Rooms in Bath stays in the ballroom, among the chandeliers, in the first weeks after the rooms opened in the autumn of seventeen seventy-one. It follows John Wood the Younger's fashionable new stage for dancing, a London chandelier maker called William Parker, and the painter Thomas Gainsborough on a crowded October evening. Best heard standing in the middle of the ballroom floor, looking up.
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