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No.1 Royal Crescent
Life as a Georgian was spectacular – that is, if you were wealthy…
Step into a world of historic splendour at the first house built on the Royal Crescent 250 years ago. Discover how our wealthy Georgian forebears would have lived, the food they would have eaten and the art they would have enjoyed looking at….
…then take a trip below stairs to find out what life was like for everybody else!
New exhibition:
The botanical world of Mary Delany and Georgie Hopton: a domestic arrangement
15 March to 15 June 2025.
A unique collaborative project focused on the work of two women artists, Mary Delany* (1700–1788) and Georgie Hopton (1967–).
*This is a British Museum Touring Exhibition.
Image to left: Georgie Hopton, Royal Visitors, 2022, courtesy the artist and Lyndsey Ingram, London. Image to right: Mary Delany, Centaurea Cyanus Blue bottle, 1779, © The Trustees of the British Museum
About No. 1 Royal Crescent
A magnificently restored town-house museum, No. 1 Royal Crescent has been decorated and furnished just as it might have been during the period 1776-1796. The rooms feature historic furniture, pictures and objects that reveal what life was like for Bath’s fashionable residents – both upstairs and downstairs.
Our immersive experience brings the house to life through film and sound so that, as they wander from room to room, visitors can get a very real sense of what it would have been like for the house’s owners and servants to live here.
Step into their shoes and walk around their home!
Bridgerton
Bridgerton filming at No.1 Royal Crescent
If you haven’t visited us before but we look familiar – well, you might have seen us on hit Netflix show Bridgerton! We were used as the exterior for the Featherington family home – with a little extra set garnishing…
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What’s new for 2025?
No.1 Royal Crescent is pleased to announce its exhibition plans for 2025:
Exhibition One: The botanical world of Mary Delany and Georgie Hopton – a domestic arrangement
15 March – 15 June 2025
A unique collaborative project focused on the work of two women artists, Mary Delany (1700–1788) and Georgie Hopton (1967–). This meeting of artistic minds across two and a half centuries will combine the display of British Museum Touring Exhibition The botanical world of Mary Delany with artworks and newly commissioned designs for wallpaper and fabric by Georgie Hopton. These two artists are connected by their shared passion for and knowledge of plants and specifically flowers, coupled with their creative skill and ability for exquisite handcrafting.
- Where? The Gallery at No.1 Royal Crescent, Bath, BA1 2LR
- Ticket price: £7, or £2.50 when purchased as an add-on to entry to the main museum
Image to left: Georgie Hopton, Royal Visitors, 2022, courtesy the artist and Lyndsey Ingram, London
Image to right: Mary Delany, Centaurea Cyanus Blue bottle, 1779, © The Trustees of the British Museum
Exhibition Two: The Most Tiresome Place in the World: Jane Austen & Bath
5 July – 2 November 2025
In 2025 No.1 Royal Crescent will celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth with the exhibition, The Most Tiresome Place in the World: Jane Austen & Bath.
Jane Austen (1775–1817) had a complicated relationship with Bath. The scandals and shallowness of the City fuelled her cynicism and wit, and nothing escaped her scathing pen. And yet she wrote very little while living in the City. Letters, contemporary responses and the only manuscript she wrote in Bath will reveal the highs and lows of her time here, as this exhibition exposes how turbulence and loss cast a long shadow over Jane Austen and Bath.
A contemporary artistic response will be presented alongside this exhibition, the details of which will be announced in early 2025.
- Where? The Gallery at No.1 Royal Crescent, Bath, BA1 2LR
- Ticket price: £7, or £2.50 when purchased as an add-on to entry to the main museum
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