Introduction
The Roman Baths at Bath are famous for being heated by Britain's only thermal hot spring. Although similar in size to bath-houses of other major towns in the province, these baths are more complete and in places stand up to 3 metres high.
Over the past 300 years, Victorian investigations and 20th-century excavations have pieced the record together and revealed most of the complex to the public view. Work in the Sacred Spring in the later twentieth century contributed to knowledge and understanding of how the Romans built around the thermal water and then used it for comfort, cure and cleansing.
The magnificent Temple of Sulis Minerva was a classical masterpiece worthy of Rome itself and architectural fragments and richly-ornamented blocks from its front facade are among the most important articles in the Roman Baths at Bath. Although not a part of the museum, the Grand Pump Room is the excavated remains of the open-air Temple courtyard and the buildings around it and could be seen as part of the Roman Baths at Bath too.