What is the history of the bath pump rooms?
Dimitri Kutch
2025-05-04 17:19:29
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The new Pump Room, built from 1789 by Thomas Baldwin and from 1793 by John Palmer. Baldwin’s style, influenced by the Adam brothers, is apparent in the design of a central building flanked by lateral pavilions. Taking the waters were the occupation for the morning. The water had famous medicinal virtues. A satirical view of the Pump Room was given by Rowlandson. It is described in the Letters of the Reverend Penrose, and in Smollett’s Humphry Clinker; it is mentioned in Elizabeth Giffard’s diary and in Sheridan’s The Rivals. The bath is shown in films based on the novels of Jane Austen. A present-day view of the Pump Room, which is still a tea-room serving Georgian elevenses to the accompaniment of chamber music. Dr Rice Charleton (1710-69) published A Chemical Analysis of Bath Waters (1750), mentioned in Smollett’s Humphry Clinker. Bath water was also sold in London.
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