Designated 12 June 1950 Designated 12 June 1950 Designated 11 August 1972 | Reference no. 443210 Reference no. 443211 Year built 1768 | |
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Similar Museum of Bath Architecture, Bath Assembly Rooms, Circus, No 1 Royal Crescent, Grand Pump Room - Ba | ||
The Paragon in the Walcot area of Bath, Somerset, England is a street of Georgian houses which have been designated as listed buildings. It was designed by Thomas Warr Attwood. It now forms part of the A4.
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Map of The Paragon, Bath BA1 5LX, UK
Numbers 1 to 21 are 3 storey houses with mansard roofs. Each building has matching doors and widows with central pediments and flat entablatures either side of the 1st floor windows and Tuscan pilasters and pediments to the doorways.
Numbers 22 to 37 continue the theme from numbers 1 to 21 and were completed in 1775 by Joseph Axford, a local mason. Numbers 28 to 32 were damaged by bombing during World War II but have since been restored.
History
St Swithin's Church was built between 1779 and 1790 by John Palmer. On 30 May 1797 the abolitionist William Wilberforce and Barbara Spooner Wilberforce were married in the church. It 1805 it was the burial place of the writer and poet Christopher Anstey and, in 1831 of Rear Admiral Sir Edward Berry. The church house which forms number 38 The Paragon was built in the early 18th century. The adjoining cemetery has gates with a rusticated base and panels with inverted torches between pilasters. There is an entablature with metopes and triglyphs.
The Building of Bath Collection lies just off the Paragon in a courtyard, known as "The Vineyards", in a building which was built in 1765 as the Trinity Presbyterian Church. It was also known as the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel, as she lived in the attached house from 1707–1791.
During the Bath Blitz of 25/26 April 1942, one of the retailitory raids on England by the Baedeker Blitz following the RAF's raid on Lübeck, a bomb fell into The Paragon, demolishing several of the houses. These have since been reconstructed in the original style.