The Roman Baths were public and in places like this one. Bath is the site of a natural hot spring. The Romans built baths here in the first century A.D. and occupied them for 400 years. They were abandoned for several hundred years, then re-occupied during the middle ages, then again during the nineteenth century. The pool and pavement date from the Roman era. Part way up the wall you can see a change in texture from the Victorian period. The Romanesque statues around the upper balcony are Victorian.
