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Toppings is on the move after 14 years on the Paragon
Visualisations for the planned internal and external changes to the former Friends Meeting House
It’s a blockbuster of a story – one of city’s most delightful bookshops Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath is moving after 14 years on The Paragon to start a new chapter on York Street. The conversion will create the largest independent bookshop to open in England for over four decades. A spokesperson for the shop says, “We are delighted to announce that we will be moving to the magnificent Georgian building formerly known as the Friends Meeting House. The superb location – opposite the Bath Abbey on York Street – will place the bookshop right in the centre of Bath.” The new store, which has been designed by the Bath-based Mark Wray Architects, will have a mezzanine and multiple floors, lined with handcrafted bookcases and the signature rolling library ladders which will allow for a bigger selection of books. External changes to the listed building, which was designed in 1817 by William Wilkins, are planned as well, as Mark Wray Architects explains, “Our proposal for the conversion of the former Friends Meeting House proposes the removal of the blind opening below the portico to create interaction with the street.” For more: www.markwray.co.uk / www.toppingbooks.co.uk
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