Roman Baths (Bath) - Gallery

Gallery

  • Bath Abbey West front, Roman Baths and Pump Room

  • Great Bath

  • Sacred Spring

  • Hippocamp mosaic

  • Spring overflow

  • Frigidarium (cold pool)

  • Model of Roman Bath and Roman Temple of Sulis Minerva as they would have looked at their greatest extent in 4th century AD

  • Caldarium. The floor has been removed to reveal the empty space which the hot air flowed through to heat the floor

  • Roman Baths by Torchlight

  • The Great Bath is fed with hot water from the hot spring.

  • Victorian superstructure.

  • Another view of the Victorian superstructure.

  • Steam rising from the Great Bath.

  • The Great Bath viewed from above. February 2011.

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