Buxton Crescent

Buxton Crescent is a Grade-I-listed building in the town of Buxton, Derbyshire, England. Owing much to the Royal Crescent in Bath, but described by the Royal Institution of British Architects as "more richly decorated and altogether more complex", it was designed by the architect John Carr, and built for the Fifth Duke of Devonshire between 1780 and 1789. LocationThe Crescent faces the site of St Ann's Well, where warm spring water has flowed for thousands of years. The well is at the foot of The Slopes, a steep landscaped hillside in the centre of Buxton. Here the geological strata channel mineral water from a mile below ground, to emerge at a constant. Current settingOriginally detached, the Crescent building is now the centrepiece of an attached range facing The Slopes. To the left (southwest) are the Natural Mineral Baths (Grade II listed, 1851–53, by Henry Currey), recently the tourist office but now empty; followed by the Old Hall Hotel (1572, altered 1672, rebuilt 1725–35, listed Grade II*), and still a hotel. To the right (northeast) are the Buxton Thermal Baths, now shops; and The Colonnade, a row of shops with a projecting canopy (both Grade II listed, 1851–53, also by Currey). Across the forecourt of the Crescent, at the foot of The Slopes, are the Pump Room (1894, also by Currey); and the adjacent public drinking spout St Ann's Well, built c. 1940, on the site of earlier wells dating back to the Roman period.

Buxton Crescent is a Grade-I-listed building in the town of Buxton, Derbyshire, England. Owing much to the Royal Crescent in Bath, but described by the Royal Institution of British Architects as "more richly decorated and altogether more complex", it was designed by the architect John Carr, and built for the Fifth Duke of Devonshire between 1780 and 1789. LocationThe Crescent faces the site of St Ann's Well, where warm spring water has flowed for thousands of years. The well is at the foot of The Slopes, a steep landscaped hillside in the centre of Buxton. Here the geological strata channel mineral water from a mile below ground, to emerge at a constant. Current settingOriginally detached, the Crescent building is now the centrepiece of an attached range facing The Slopes. To the left (southwest) are the Natural Mineral Baths (Grade II listed, 1851–53, by Henry Currey), recently the tourist office but now empty; followed by the Old Hall Hotel (1572, altered 1672, rebuilt 1725–35, listed Grade II*), and still a hotel. To the right (northeast) are the Buxton Thermal Baths, now shops; and The Colonnade, a row of shops with a projecting canopy (both Grade II listed, 1851–53, also by Currey). Across the forecourt of the Crescent, at the foot of The Slopes, are the Pump Room (1894, also by Currey); and the adjacent public drinking spout St Ann's Well, built c. 1940, on the site of earlier wells dating back to the Roman period.