Queen's Bath, Hampi

The Queen's Bath, immediately south of the Royal Enclosure — a 30-metre square sunken pool surrounded on all four sides by a vaulted arcade with ornamental balconies above. The water was piped from an open channel through terracotta pipes and sprayed from fountain spouts in the walls. Despite the name — a 19th-century British misreading — the bath appears from the surrounding dormitories to have been used by the king and the men of the court, not the women. The vaults carry stucco work in a mixed Vijayanagara-Deccan Sultanate idiom; the arcade is largely intact.