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Wood, John

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Wood, John, 1704–1754, English architect, called Wood of Bath Bath, city (1991 pop. 84,283), Bath and North East Somerset, SW England, in the Avon River valley. Britain's leading winter resort, Bath has the only natural hot springs in the country.
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. When he went (1727) to Bath from Yorkshire to begin his career as a road surveyor, the city was at its height as a center of fashion. Wood devised civic layouts on a grand scale. His executed schemes exhibit entire streets and terraces formally arranged in continuous rows, curves, or circles. He designed Queen's Square, North and South Parade, and the Circus. Wood of Bath also designed the mansion of Prior Park, near Bath, his most handsome detached building. His work, by its charm and imagination, set a standard for the architects who later worked at Bath, and it remains an inspiration for modern city planners. His son,

John Wood, Jr., 1728–81, completed the Circus and also built the Royal Crescent and the Assembly Rooms.



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COUNS DAVID WOOD, JOHN STOKEL-WALKER, AND MARGARET WOOD, Walker ward.
Front row: Kenneth Pember, Rodney Johns, Geoffrey Fallas, Brian Priestley, June Rawlins, Margaret Wood, John Wilson, Kenneth Broadbent, John Sowerby, Shirley Earnshaw, Steven Micklethwaite, Blanch Yull, John Hanson, Roger Knight, Jean Cooper, Anne Nottingham, with Doreen Stringer as Mary and Brian Haigh as Joseph.
Squad: Steele, Leacock, Williams, Shaw, Staunton, Morrell, Doyle, Hughes, Wood, John, McSheffrey, Shearer, Carey, Jorgensen, Adebola, Johnson, Whing, Osbourne.
 
 
 
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