The Pump Room Extension competition

Reference Number
PP/2786
Level of Description
Item
Title
The Pump Room Extension competition
Date
c. 1899
Extent
Pages: 46
Description
The Bath Pump Room Competition (title on the cover). Outlines the history of the Baths and the Council's involvement in the Roman Baths excavations in the 1870s, the reasons for the Pump Room extension scheme, council debates (including the reasons why the City Architect, Major Charles Davis, did not receive the commission), and the ensuing controversy over the designs in the 1890s.
Subject
Architecture competitions
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