Bath

Question 1

Why is Bath famous?

Answer 1

Healing powers of its waters.

Question 2

Population

Answer 2

90,000

Question 3

Who founded it? (2)

Answer 3

• Prince Bladud
• Son of King Lear

Question 4

Prince Bladud’s story (4)

Answer 4

• Caught leprosy
• Looking after pigs
• Pigs bathed in hot mud and were cured of their skin diseases
• Bladud followed them and was cured

Question 5

When did Romans build a temple her?

Answer 5

50AD

Question 6

Which God did the Romans dedicated the temple to? (2)

Answer 6

• Sul (a Celtic God)
• Minerva (Roman Goddess of healing)

Question 7

Roman Bath called

Answer 7

• Aquae Sulis

Question 8

When Romans leave?

Answer 8

407 AD

Question 9

Medieval times (3)

Answer 9

• Important market town
• Wool
• Great abbey built

Question 10

Population grown in Georgian times? (2)

Answer 10

• 18 Century
• Multiplied by ten

Question 11

Who started Bath’s Georgian revival?

Answer 11

Richard ‘Beau’ Nash

Question 11

What was the stimulus for Bath’s revival?

Answer 11

• Visit of Queen Anne to Bath

Question 12

When did Queen Anne visit Bath? (2)

Answer 12

• Four times
• 1688 - 1703

Question 13

What did Beau Nash do?

Answer 13

• Turned Bath into a fashionable resort

Question 14

What was Georgian Bath famous for? (5)

Answer 14

• Waters
• Splendid buildings
• Gambling
• Balls
• Horse Races

Question 15

Key Architects?

Answer 15

John Wood and his son (same name)

Question 16

What did John Wood build? (4)

Answer 16

• Queen Square
• The Parades
• The Gran Circus
• The Royal Crescent

Question 17

Who came to Bath? (4)

Answer 17

• Dukes, duchesses, Lords
• Famous writers
• Artists
• Politicians

Question 18

Most famous literary inhabitants? (2)

Answer 18

• Jane Austen
• 1801-1806
• Charles Dickes
• Wrote The Pickwick Papers there

Question 19

Which JA books set in Bath? (2)

Answer 19

• Northanger Abbey
• Persuasion

Question 20

Final grand buildings? (2)

Answer 20

• Pultney Bridge
• Pultney Street (1790)

Question 21

When did Bath start to decline again? (2)

Answer 21

• After Napoleonic wars Britain slipped into recession
• financial scandals caused Bath’s banks to collapse

Question 22

Royal Crescent - when built (2)

Answer 22

• Foundation stone laid 1767
• Architect John Wood the Younger

Question 23

Are all the buildings inside the Royal Crescent the same? (2)

Answer 23

• The facade is uniform
• Each house built by a different architect

Question 24

How many RC buildings still entire houses? (2)

Answer 24

- Eight - Number One is a hotel and museum

Question 25

Did people buy houses in Bath?

Answer 25

Mainly they rented them for a few months.

Question 26

What is missing on the RC buildings?

Answer 26

No signage - to preserve the sweep of the Crescent

Question 27

The Royal Circus - when built?

Answer 27

By John Wood in 1754

Question 28

Details on Royal Circle (4)

Answer 28

- Doric, Ionic, and Corithian columns - Druid and stone mason motifs - Acorns instead of pineapples - Serpents

Question 29

What inspired John Woods Royal Circus? (3)

Answer 29

- Coliseum - Stonehenge - the circle has the same diameter - The Druids - John Wood believed Bath was the centre of Druid activity in Britain

Question 30

Why Royal Circus trees planted? (2)

Answer 30

- John Wood wanted an open space - Victorians preferred modesty and privacy

Question 31

Things to imagine in Bath? (4)

Answer 31

- Horse drawn carriages - Promenading aristocrats and wealthy citizens - Boxes carried by servants - Muddy streets!

Question 32

Gravel Walk (2)

Answer 32

- Where Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth agree to marry in Persuasion - Site of Georgian Garden (the kind of place Jane Austen would have spent a lot of her time)

Question 33

The Abbey (3)

Answer 33

- Built 1502 - First King of England - Edgar - married on this site in 973

Question 34

Putney Bridge (2)

Answer 34

- One of only four bridges in the world to have shops on it - Allowed Bath to expand to the other side of the river

Question 35

Roman Baths - when built?

Answer 35

70 AD

Question 36

When baths rediscovered?

Answer 36

1878

Question 37

How baths discovered?

Answer 37

City surveyor was investigating a leak!

Question 38

Queen Square - when built?

Answer 38

- 1729 - John Wood

Question 39

Queen Square design

Answer 39

- Unified facade like a palace - Beginning of Georgian Bath and speculative development

Question 40

Queen Square obelisk

Answer 40

- Commemorates the Prince of Wales' visit

Question 41

Where did Jane Austen live?

Answer 41

South side of Queen Square.