Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath
Independent bookshop inside a Greek Revival former Masonic hall with Ionic portico and roof lanterns.
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This guide to Topping & Company Booksellers in Bath starts with the doorway between its two Ionic columns, and with the Freemasons who commissioned William Wilkins to build them a hall on York Street in eighteen nineteen. It follows a building that changed faiths more than once, from secretive lodge to Bethesda Chapel to a Quaker meeting house. Take a moment by the side wall before you go in, and look up toward the gutters.
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