Royal Crescent - a residential complex in the city of Bath, UK, consisting of 30 houses, built in the shape of a crescent. The complex was designed by the architect John Wood the Younger and built in 1767 - 1774 GG At this time, Bath is experiencing its heyday: an aristocratic environment has become fashionable to go to rest on the water, and in the summer Bat turned into a center of social life in Britain. Naturally, the city built a lot of new buildings, and it was at this time are the masterpieces of Georgian architecture, which is famous for Bath.

First, the complex was called simply Crescent, the epithet "Royal" was added at the end of the XVIII century, when the houses of 1 and 16 Frederick lived - the Duke of York and Albany.

John Wood has designed only the facade of the complex, decorated with Ionic columns. Future homeowners bought their portion of the facade and has hired his own architect for the construction of the building. The result is a unique structure - with a unified facade back side houses a chaotic mix of different layouts of buildings and roofs of different heights. "Royal facade and backyard cooks" - so called this style in Bath.

John Wood mladschy, like his father, John Wood the Elder, was interested in the occult and Masonic symbols. Some find these characters in their construction. Royal Crescent and nearby Circle - three curved along the arc of a building and a round area in the middle, by John Wood the Elder - symbolize the moon and the sun, and the circle with the adjacent Gay Street and Queens Square in plan form a key - and one Masonic symbols.

In these homes at various times lived famous people: Marie-Louise de Lamballe, maid of honor to Queen Marie Antoinette, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, the poet and playwright Richard Sheridan. Here it was born the "Company blue stocking" - so called Salon Lady Elizabeth Montagu.

Now at No. 1 is the museum and house number 15 and 16 are combined, and there is a hotel.