Royal Crescent
Sweeping Georgian terrace of thirty houses behind one Ionic-columned palace front, facing a lawn.
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This guide to the Royal Crescent in Bath begins on a March evening in seventeen seventy-two, inside the house of the singing-master Thomas Linley, where his famous daughter Elizabeth has stayed home from a concert. It brings in the young Richard Brinsley Sheridan, an unwanted married admirer, and the architect John Wood the Younger, whose sweeping palace front hides more than it shows. Best heard on the lawn facing the curve, within sight of number eleven.
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