Wedding Photographer The Roman Baths Bath — the Great Bath, the Torch-Lit Pool and the Royal Crescent
The Roman Baths in Bath is England’s most remarkable and most atmospherically powerful Roman monument in active ceremonial use — the preserved bathing complex of Aquae Sulis, built around the sacred thermal spring of the goddess Sulis Minerva between the first and fifth centuries CE, whose principal chamber — the Great Bath — is a lead-lined pool of 1.6 million litres of continuously flowing 46°C mineral water, surrounded by the Roman masonry piers supporting the modern replica roof and lit by the rising steam of the spring. For The Roman Baths wedding photography, the Great Bath’s torch-lit evening portrait session (available exclusively to evening event guests after the museum closes) provides a portrait setting of Roman thermal bathing architecture of unmatched historical depth: the steam rising from the bath, the torchlight on the Roman stone and the reflection of the evening sky in the thermal pool create portrait compositions available at no other Roman monument in England.
The Great Bath Torch-Lit Portrait Session and the Roman Temple Precinct
The Roman Baths’ torch-lit evening portrait session — available exclusively to private event guests after the museum closes at 6pm, when the 44 flaming torches are lit around the Great Bath’s perimeter and the steam rises from the 46°C spring water in the cooling evening air — provides a portrait setting of Roman engineering and thermal spring atmospherics unavailable anywhere else in England: the torchlight’s orange reflection in the pool, the steam and the Roman masonry columns above the bath create portrait compositions of antiquity and thermal drama of extraordinary and unrepeatable character. The Sacred Spring’s overflow and the King’s Bath provide secondary Roman monument portrait settings within the museum complex.
The Royal Crescent, the Circus and the Prior Park Landscape Garden
Bath’s Georgian townscape provides the portrait landscape context for a Roman Baths wedding: the Royal Crescent’s 114-metre curved Bath stone facade (John Wood the Younger, 1767–75) and the lawn of the Royal Victoria Park, the Circus’s circular drum of Doric, Ionic and Corinthian columns (John Wood the Elder, 1754–68) and Pulteney Bridge’s Palladian bridge shops across the Avon provide Georgian portrait settings of English Neoclassical townscape of the highest possible quality. Prior Park Landscape Garden (National Trust) — Ralph Allen’s eighteenth-century landscape garden south of Bath with the Palladian Bridge (1755, one of only three in England) above the upper lake — provides a landscape garden portrait destination adjacent to Bath.