Royal Crescent is a residential complex in the city of bath, UK, consisting of 30 houses, built in the shape of a Crescent. The complex was designed by architect John wood the younger and built in 1767 – 1774 G. At this time, the bat is experiencing its peak: in the aristocratic environment becomes fashionable to go to rest on the water, and in the summer a bat into a center of social life in the UK. Naturally, the city is building many new buildings, and it is to this period belong the masterpieces of Georgian architecture, which is famous for the bat.

Originally, the complex was known simply as the Crescent, the epithet "Royal" was added in the late eighteenth century, when the houses 1 and 16 lived Frederick Duke of York and Albany.

John wood has designed only the facade of the complex, decorated with ionic columns. Future owners of homes bought myself a plot of the facade and has already hired its own architect to construct the building. The result is a unique structure with a unified facade back side of the houses is a chaotic mixture of different layouts and roofs of varying heights. "The Royal facade and kuharkina backyard" - so called this style in bath.

John wood-mladsi, like his father John wood the elder, was interested in occult and Masonic symbols. Some people find these characters and in their buildings. Royal Crescent and the nearby Circle – three curved arc of the building, and a circular area in the middle, the author of John wood Sr.-symbolize the moon and the sun, and the Circle with the adjoining gay street and Queens square in plan form, the key is also one of the Masonic symbols.

In these houses at different times lived famous people: Marie-Louise de Lamballe, lady-in-waiting of Queen Marie Antoinette, Prince Frederick Duke of York and Albany, the poet and playwright Richard Sheridan. Here was born a "blue stocking Society" - the so-called salon lady Elizabeth Montagu.

Now at number 1 is the Museum and house number 15 and 16 combined, and there is a hotel.