Present
All of the buildings have been designated by English Heritage as Grade I listed buildings.
No.s 16-18 are now occupied by the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (BRLSI). The south side (numbers 5-13) which was originally left open, is now occupied by the 4star Francis Hotel.
The square hosts many attractions all year, such as a French market, Italian market, and Boules weekend.
On 30 October 2011, the square was occupied as part of the global Occupy movement, with protesters, under the banner of Occupy Bath, pitching tents and creating other temporary structures. The protestors held a variety of debates, talks and musical events related to financial inequality and were runners up in the 2011 Bath Chronicle Campaign of the Year. The camp dismantled on 10 December 2011, with the protestors vowing to continue via other means.
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Famous quotes containing the word present:
“The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
“A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves—in full bloom or as they fade away.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)
“You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They’re admired and hero-worshipped but there is always present underlying desire to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)