It is not known how closely the baths, seen here as rebuilt by John North in 1892, indicate the size of the baths opened by Barter thirty-two years earlier. But since they filled the area between Donegall Street and the parallel Little Donegall Street, they were by no means small.

In 1860, just four years after Barter built the first Victorian Turkish bath at St Ann's, and with Urquhart's Turkish Bath Movement at its most persuasive, it must have been difficult to imagine that less people would become regular bathers that the campaigners had assumed.

After their manager Thomas Coakley's comment in 1872 that 'so very few avail themselves' of the baths that 'they are not worth keeping open, inasmuch as they are not paying expenses', it is only surprising that they had a lifespan of well over 70 years. 1