Charles Harcourt Masters (1759 – ?) was an English
surveyor
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and
architect
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in
Bath
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* Bathing, immersion in a fluid
** Bathtub, a large open container for water, in which a person may wash their body
** Public bathing, a public place where people bathe
* Thermae, ancient Roman public bathing facilities
Plac ...
.
He made a set of maps of Bath
turnpike roads in 1786. In 1789, he made a scale model of Bath which he displayed at his home, 21 Old Orchard Street, and later in
London
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: the plans were published in 1794. As a surveyor he worked on the development of the Widcombe and Lyncombe districts of Bath, and also laid out formal gardens and grounds. In his later career he practised as an architect under the name of Harcourt, going into partnership with
George Phillips Manners
George Phillips Manners (1789 – 28 November 1866) was a British architect, who was Bath City Architect from 1823 to 1862.
In his early career, he worked with Charles Harcourt Masters, and after about 1845 was in partnership with J. E. Gill. ...
: he then lived at 39
Rivers Street
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.
List of works
*
Sydney Gardens,
Bathwick
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The district became pa ...
, Bath (1795)
* Sydney Hotel, Bathwick, Bath (now
Holburne Museum of Art
The Holburne Museum (formerly known as the Holburne of Menstrie Museum and the Holburne Museum of Art) is located in Sydney Pleasure Gardens, Bath, Somerset, England. The city's first public art gallery, the Grade I listed building, is home to ...
) (1796–1797): modifying a design of
Thomas Baldwin
* Battlefield House,
Lansdown, Bath (1802)
*
Dyrham Park
Dyrham Park () is a baroque English country house in an ancient deer park near the village of Dyrham in South Gloucestershire, England. The house, with the attached orangery and stable block, is a Grade I listed building, while the park is Gr ...
grounds,
Gloucestershire
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(1798–1799)
*
Harptree Court
Harptree Court is a Grade II listed building at East Harptree in the English county of Somerset. It was built around 1800 to designs by Charles Harcourt Masters.
History
The house was built in 1797 on several fields including one known as Brook ...
,
East Harptree
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* Bloomfield Crescent, Bath (1801)
* Portico of the Hetling Pump Room, Bath (1805): uncertain
* Widcombe Crescent and Widcombe Terrace, Bath (1805)
*
Cothelstone
Cothelstone is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated in the Quantock Hills six miles north of Taunton. The parish, which includes the hamlet of Toulton, has a population of 111.
The view from Cothelstone with a telescope on ...
House,
Somerset
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, with George Phillips Manners (1817–1818)
* Remodel of the park and gardens at
Dyrham Park
Dyrham Park () is a baroque English country house in an ancient deer park near the village of Dyrham in South Gloucestershire, England. The house, with the attached orangery and stable block, is a Grade I listed building, while the park is Gr ...
(1800)
References
*
H.M. Colvin, ''A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840'' (1997)
* M. Forsyth, ''Bath'', Pevsner Architectural Guides (2003)
1759 births
British surveyors
19th-century English architects
Year of death missing
Architects from Bath, Somerset
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