Queen-square


A Guide to all the Watering and Sea-Bathing Places; with a description of the Lakes ; a Sketch of a Tour in Wales and Itineraries. Illustrated with Maps and Views (1803) by R Philllips

Queens Square is charmingly situated and composed of elegant buildings which display all the grandeur of architectural elegance. It was designed by Wood, to whose professional taste and spirit Bath owes so much. In the area is a pleasure ground enclosed by iron plaisadoes, adorned in the centre with an obelisk, 70 feet high, shaped and pointed like a book-binders needle, and charged with the following inscription:

In Memory
Of honours conferred
And in gratitude
For benefits bestowed
In this city
By His Royal Highness
FREDERICK Prince of Wales
And his Royal Consort
In the Year MDCCXXXVII.
This obelisk is erected
By RICHARD NASH, Esq.

A Topographical and Statistical Description of the County of Somerset etc (1810) by George Alexander Cooke.

The whole Square, by its uniformity, has the appearance of one house, though it is divided into several, and is 520 feet in front and 260 in depth. Each front has 63 windows and each end 31. Tow of the other sites serve as wings to the principal side each of which contains 24 houses upon a perfect square of 210 feet; and the front of these wings have 25 windows,so that when the whole building is surveyed in front, it shews 113 windows extending 1040 feet and from the neighbouring hills looks like one grand palace.

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Quotations
 Chapter 6 
"So, Miss Anne, Sir Walter and your sister are gone; and what part of Bath do you think they will settle in?" and this, without much waiting for an answer; or in the young ladies' addition of, "I hope we shall be in Bath in the winter; but remember, papa, if we do go, we must be in a good situation: none of your Queen-squares for us!" or in the anxious supplement from Mary, of "Upon my word, I shall be pretty well off, when you are all gone away to be happy at Bath!"
 

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