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The Roman Baths

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The Roman Baths are a Roman bathing site and archaeological museum on Stall Street in Bath, Somerset.

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The Roman Baths — A stone statue of Roma displayed at the Roman Baths Tim Wildsmith · Unsplash · edited
The Roman Baths — A stone statue of Roma displayed at the Roman BathsThe Roman Baths — The Great Bath surrounded by Roman columns and stone galleriesThe Roman Baths — Stone columns and carved gallery above the bath waterThe Roman Baths — Close-up of a carved Ionic capital at the baths

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Why go

  • 130 curse tablets from the Sacred Spring include complaints about stolen bathing clothes.
  • The temple pediment had a central head, possibly a Gorgon, looking down from 15 metres.

Opening hours

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Monday09:00 – 18:00
Tuesday09:00 – 18:00
Wednesday09:00 – 18:00
Thursday09:00 – 18:00
Friday09:00 – 18:00
Saturday09:00 – 18:00
Sunday09:00 – 18:00

Don't miss

  • Great BathExplore the open-air Great Bath, lined with lead from the Mendip area.Roman Bath House
  • Sulis Minerva headLook for the gilt bronze head of the goddess Sulis Minerva, discovered nearby in 1727.Museum

Know before you go

  • Visitors may tour the baths and museum but must not enter or bathe in the water because of a pathogen.

What's inside

  • Sacred Spring
  • Roman Temple
  • Roman Bath House, with hot, lukewarm and cold rooms
  • Museum of artefacts from Aquae Sulis
  • Grand Pump Room — a neoclassical salon still in use

With kids

  • With children, look for finds from pre-Roman and Roman Britain among the museum’s thousands of archaeological objects.

Tips for your visit

  • Allow at least two hours for a complete visit.
  • Enter through the former concert hall, built in 1897 by J. M. Brydon as an eastern extension of the Grand Pump Room. Postcode: BA1 1LZ.

Tours and audio guides

Audio guide
Available at the entrance

Interesting facts5

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  1. Rainfall on the Mendip Hills filters through limestone aquifers to supply the springs.

    Roman Baths (Bath) - Wikipedia
  2. 4,300 metres

    Water rises from depths of 2,700–4,300 metres after geothermal heat warms it to 69–96°C underground.

    Thermes de Bath - Wikipedia
  3. 1.17 million

    About 1.17 million litres emerge daily at 46°C from the Pennyquick geological fault.

    Thermes de Bath - Wikipedia

  4. A stone-lined pool around the spring rests on oak piles driven into the mud.

    Thermes de Bath - Wikipedia

  5. The temple stood on a podium more than two metres above its courtyard, reached by steps.

    Roman Baths (Bath) - Wikipedia

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History

Roman, medieval and Georgian architecture survives across the site. The spring complex is housed in 18th-century buildings designed by John Wood the Elder and John Wood the Younger.

  1. 836 BCGeoffrey of Monmouth’s legend says Bladud rediscovered the spring and built the first baths.
  2. 60–70 ADA temple was built at the spring. Aquae Sulis grew around it, and the bathing complex expanded over the next 300 years.
  3. 2nd centuryA timber building with a barrel-vaulted roof enclosed the baths.
  4. 5th centuryThe baths remained in use until Roman rule in Britain ended. After Roman withdrawal, they fell into disrepair and were lost to silting and floods.
  5. 12th centuryJohn of Tours built a curative bath over the King’s Spring reservoir.
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  1. 16th centuryThe city corporation built Queen’s Bath south of the spring.
  2. 1613 and 1615Anne of Denmark visited Bath for her health and bathed in the King’s Bath in 1613.
  3. 1789–1799Thomas Baldwin began the Grand Pump Room in 1789. John Palmer took over in 1791 and completed it in 1799.
  4. 1810William Smith restored the Hot Bath Spring’s original course after finding its water had diverted into another channel.
  5. Victorian periodThe Roman baths were rediscovered.
  6. 1897J. M. Brydon’s concert hall was built as the visitor entrance.
  7. 1982A borehole was sunk to supply drinking water to the Pump Room.
  8. 16 June 2022The Roman Baths Clore Learning Centre opened with interactive exhibits and underground rooms.
  9. 2024A study found more than 300 bacterial species in water samples from pools feeding the baths; 15 produced substances with antimicrobial potential.

Sources: Roman Baths (Bath) - Wikipedia · Bath - Wikivoyage (see) · Roman Baths | 2,000 years of history are waitin… · About | Roman Baths · Tickets & Pricing for 2026-09-september · Thermes de Bath - Wikipedia · checked 24 Sep 2026

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Nearby Thermae Bath Spa and the refurbished Cross Bath offer bathing.

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