Buxton Crescent is a Grade-I-listed building in the town of Buxton, Derbyshire, England. It owes much to the Royal Crescent in Bath, but has been described by the Royal Institution of British Architects as "more richly decorated and altogether more complex". It was designed by the architect John Carr of York, and built for the 5th Duke of Devonshire between 1780 and 1789. In 2020, following a multi-year restoration and redevelopment project supported by the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Derbyshire County Council, The Crescent was reopened as a 5-star spa hotel.
The Crescent Hotel in 2020
The Crescent with the Pump Room to the left in 2007
The Old Hall Hotel at the south-west end of the attached range of listed buildings
The Buxton Thermal Baths, now the Cavendish Arcade, at the east end of range, with The Colonnade at far right, and the side of the Crescent visible upper left
Buxton is a spa town in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, in the East Midlands region of England. It is England's highest market town, sited at some 1,000 feet (300 m) above sea level. It lies close to Cheshire to the west and Staffordshire to the south, on the edge of the Peak District National Park. In 1974, the municipal borough merged with other nearby boroughs, including Glossop, to form the local government district and borough of High Peak.
Buxton town centre
People filling bottles with water at St Ann's Well
Buxton Town Hall (on the right)
Buxton Crescent and St Ann's Well