Bath Abbey 24 February 2017
Looking to the west window, with the intricate fan vaulting.
A Christian convent opened here in 676 and in the 8th Century the land was given to the monks of St Peter's here. The Normans built a cathedral on the site in 1090 which by the 15th Century, was in ruins. The present abbey was built in 1499 and lasted until the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII in 1539. From 1572-1618 the abbey was repaired and became Bath's parish church. In the 19th Century it was one of many religious buildings restored by Gilbert Scott. In WW2 it suffered bomb damage during one of the Luftwaffe's Baedeker raids on Britain; damage was repaired from 1948-1960.
Bath Abbey 24 February 2017
Looking to the west window, with the intricate fan vaulting.
A Christian convent opened here in 676 and in the 8th Century the land was given to the monks of St Peter's here. The Normans built a cathedral on the site in 1090 which by the 15th Century, was in ruins. The present abbey was built in 1499 and lasted until the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII in 1539. From 1572-1618 the abbey was repaired and became Bath's parish church. In the 19th Century it was one of many religious buildings restored by Gilbert Scott. In WW2 it suffered bomb damage during one of the Luftwaffe's Baedeker raids on Britain; damage was repaired from 1948-1960.