Charles Harcourt Masters (born 1759) was an English surveyor and

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in Bath. He made a set of maps of Bath

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roads in 1786. In 1789 he made a scale model of Bath which he displayed at his home, 21 Old Orchard Street, and later in

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: the plans were published in 1794. As a surveyor he worked on the development of the Widcombe and Lyncombe districts of Bath, and also laid out formal gardens and grounds. In his later career he practised as an architect under the name of Harcourt, going into partnership with

George Phillips Manners George Phillips Manners (1789 – 28 November 1866) was a British architect, Bath City Architect from 1823 to 1862. In his early career he worked with Charles Harcourt Masters and after about 1845 was in partnership with C.E. Gill. He retired i ...

: he then lived at 39 Rivers Street.

List of works

* Sydney Gardens,

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, Bath (1795) * Sydney Hotel, Bathwick, Bath (now

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) (1796–1797): modifying a design of Thomas Baldwin * Battlefield House, Lansdown, Bath (1802) *

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grounds,

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(1798–1799) * Harptree Court,

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* Bloomfield Crescent, Bath (1801) * Portico of the Hetling Pump Room, Bath (1805): uncertain * Widcombe Crescent and Widcombe Terrace, Bath (1805) * Cothelstone House,

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, with George Phillips Manners (1817–1818) * Remodel of the park and gardens at

(1800)

References

* H.M. Colvin, ''A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840'' (1997) * M. Forsyth, ''Bath'', Pevsner Architectural Guides (2003) 1759 births 19th-century English architects Year of death missing Architects from Bath, Somerset {{UK-architect-stub