Camden Crescent in Bath,

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, England, was built by John Eveleigh in 1788; it was originally known as Upper Camden Place. Numbers 6 to 21 have been designated as a Grade I

listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

s. The other houses are Grade II listed. The houses are of three storeys, with attics and basements. At the southern end of the crescent the basements are at ground level because of the contours of the land. In 1889 a landslide demolished 9 houses at the east end of the crescent. The remains of the houses were demolished and removed to allow Hedgemead Park to be built. This means that the two paired doors of numbers 16 and 17, which stand beneath a

pediment Pediments are gables, usually of a triangular shape. Pediments are placed above the horizontal structure of the lintel, or entablature, if supported by columns. Pediments can contain an overdoor and are usually topped by hood moulds. A pedimen ...

supported by five

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columns at what would have been the centre of the crescent, no longer form its middle. The arms of

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, PC (baptised 21 March 1714 – 18 April 1794) was an English lawyer, judge and Whig politician who was first to hold the title of Earl Camden. As a lawyer and judge he was a leading proponent of civil liberties, ...

, after whom the crescent was named, are on the doorway keystones along with an elephant's head which was his symbol. In July 1951 Number 1 Camden Crescent was the scene of an abduction when

John Straffen John Thomas Straffen (27 February 1930 – 19 November 2007) was a British serial killer who was the longest-serving prisoner in British history. After killing two young girls in the summer of 1951, he was found unfit to plead at trial and commi ...

took five-year-old Brenda Goddard and later killed her. In Jane Austen's ''Persuasion'' the Elliot family rent lodgings on Camden Place as the Crescent was then known.

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{{reflist Houses completed in 1788 Grade I listed buildings in Bath, Somerset Streets in Bath, Somerset Crescents (architecture) 1788 establishments in England

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