Royal Crescent

After the completion of the Circus, Wood the Younger proceeded to augment the grand scheme of Queen Square and King's Circus, together with their linking streets, by the building of Royal Crescent on a scale which had previously been reserved only for palaces of the order of Versailles. The great bulk of the building, which contains thirty houses, is arranged in a semi ellipse, with a major axis of 538 feet. A single order of Ionic columns, set above a deep band at first-floor level, gives a uniformity to the gently curving elevation, which is skillfully terminated by coupled columns on the end bays.