23/05/2023
~ St Paul’s House ~
A story of being in the right place, at the wrong (or right?) time.
In the few years that I’ve lived in Bath, I’ve passed this property on Monmouth Street dozens of times. It was a dirty unloved frontage, formerly a phone shop. But nestled above the door was a charming gilded sign (skip through the slides to see it).
Well, one day it was there, and the next day, it wasn’t. The building was under renovation, and the whole frontage had been removed. I stopped to ask where that one beautiful pane had gone, and unfortunately it had been ripped out and broken along with the rest of the frontage. Among the rubble I only found one small shard of the original sign, and somehow convinced to let me come back and replace the sign (albeit a slightly more modern take on the design).
And here it is! Traced from a grainy photo of the original, scaled up, then painted in reverse. Water gilded in 24ct gold, 12ct white gold, with the scrolls oil gilded in 22ct moon gold.
Here’s to another hundred years?
