A Charity can be a great Business, too! No.1 Royal Crescent won the Leisure and Tourism Business of the Year award at the Bath Chronicle Business Awards (11 September), proving that you don’t have to be a corporate business to be competitive. In this popular category were businesses of all sizes including hotels and festival…
Top of the class! Polly Andrews, Education Officer for Bath Preservation Trust, has taken the education programme offered at No 1 Royal Crescent to new heights by winning a prestigious Sandford Award. Ratified by the Heritage Education Trust, these national awards recognise quality and excellence in the education service at an historic site. The Sandford…
The Planning Inspector has issued his final report on the B&NES Core Strategy, the planning blueprint for Bath and environs until 2026. The Trust had campaigned throughout that the areas of Bath’s Green Belt which the Council has wished to release for development should not be included, in order to protect the rural setting of the…
Bath’s green belt (and areas of the AONB) are under threat from major housing development in the Council’s new draft of the Core Strategy which will come under scrutiny from a Planning Inspector this autumn. Bath Preservation Trust has taken the position that Bath has an inherent environmental capacity due to the need to protect…
No. 1 Royal Crescent has a new app that is free to download. For more info click here
Adam Fergusson’s renowned 1973 book The Sack of Bath managed to halt the headlong destruction of those times, and saved some much-loved corners of the city, such as Walcot St, from the bulldozers. Adam Fergusson revisited the city on July 24 to appeal again for Bath’s future with a talk at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific…
Please consider joining the No.1 Fan Club or making a one-off donation. With the final £500,000 of our £5million project still to raise, any support you can give will be very much appreciated. To find out more and see how your donation can help please click here.
No.1 Royal Crescent has reopened. The magnificent town-house, now reunited with its servants’ wing, creates a wonderfully vivid picture of fashionable life in 18th century Bath. Each room is an exquisite example of Georgian interior design with authentic furniture, paintings, objects and textiles. From the elegance of the drawing and dining rooms, the bedrooms and…
