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Bath's Circus in Autumn Sunlight #2
David Lewis Baker
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The (originally 'Kings') Circus (South Eastern Section - c1762-6) bathed in the late October sun of 2007, one of the best autums I can remember. As ever, the play of light across the beautiful Bath stone allows this shot to become magical! (Best viewed large size.) The (originally 'Kings') Circus bathed in moonlight across the beautiful Bath stone! (Best viewed large size.)
It has been pointed out that the Circus was originally devoid of any plants or grass, being a circle of cobbles, since Wood intended the link to nature to be a direct one-to-one relationship between the architecture and its symbolism and the open skies above - 'a dramatic and theatrical space where the architecture took centre stage'. Wood believed that there had always existed a temple to the Sun and Moon on Lansdown hill and the Circus was to be his recreation of a temple of the Sun, with the Royal Cresent the reborn temple of the crescent moon! As such the Circus is the same internal diameter (318') as Stone Henge, itself an ancient temple of the sun. (From 'Obsession: John Wood and the Creation of Georgian Bath', 2004, pp95-98).
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