The Cross Bath
Open-air Georgian thermal pool fed by a sacred hot spring, once famed for a royal pregnancy.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Cross Bath in Bath begins at the fountain where the Cross Spring still rises, then goes back to sixteen eighty-seven, when Mary of Modena, Catholic queen of James the Second, came to bathe in its water. It follows a courtier's lavish monument, a royal birth and the rumours Protestant England whispered about it. Best heard from the steps beside the oval pool.
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