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The medieval Abbey sits in the centre of this historic town. The present building dates to the 17th-century as a rebuild after it was ruined during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
The Bath Abbey Footprint Project is a Heritage Lottery Fund project to repair the Abbey’s collapsing floor, install a new eco-friendly heating system using Bath’s hot springs, and provide new, improved space and facilities to ensure the Abbey is more sustainable, hospitable and useable for local residents, worshippers and visitors alike.
Wessex Archaeology will be working alongside Bath-based firm Emery to help deliver the £19.3 million Footprint Project.
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Lonely Planet review for Fasiladas' Bath
Around 2km northwest of town centre lies Fasiladas' Bath, a shady, beautiful and historical spot attributed to both Fasiladas and Iyasu I. Until the five-year project to fully restore the complex (financed by the Norwegian government at a cost of around Br6.4 million) is completed in 2008, we'll stop calling it peaceful too. That said, it's still worth a visit. (Note you must obtain your ticket at the Royal Enclosure before visiting.)
The large, rectangular sunken pool is overlooked by a small but charming building, thought by some to be Fasiladas' second residence. Almost out of Cambodia's Angkor Thom, snakelike tree roots envelop, support and digest sections of the stone wall surrounding the pool.
Although the complex was used for bathing (royalty used to don inflated goatskin lifejackets for their refreshing dips!), it was likely constructed for religious celebrations, the likes of which still go on today. Once a year, Fasiladas' Bath is filled with water for the Timkat . After being blessed by a priest, the pool becomes a riot of spraying water, shouts and laughter as the crowd jumps in. The ceremony replicates Christ's baptism in the Jordan River, and is seen as an important renewal of faith.
Just east of the main compound is Zobel's Mausoleum. Local legend states it's named after Yohannis I's horse, which heroically brought Iyasu (Yohannis' son) back from Sudan after his father's death.
A sidewalk prism in Bath, England, manufactured by Haywards Limited of London. The Hayward brothers were William and Edward Hayward, part of a notable family of glaziers and glass-cutters, who made the move into the ironmongery trade when they bought the business of Robert Henly in 1848. Robert Henly was an iron work specialist who had also been producing coalholes, but ill-health had led him to sell his business. The Hayward Brothers expanded the business and made their fortune not from jobbing iron-work or coalholes, but from the development and patenting of a semi-prismatic pavement light, such as the one shown here. These sidewalk prisms act as skylights to illuminate dark basement. The company seems to have gone out of business in the 1970s.
Bath is full of these old Victorian houses, some are incredibly dirty, which kind of ruins the look of them but I guess it adds to the aged look.
Random fact: Around the corner on the left of the photo is the shortest road in the UK. It's only 2 houses long with one house of each side of the road. Apparently the reason behind this was the builders ran out of money after finishing two houses and they just left it as it was.
" if your fuel pump breaks while you're at the sea side, just call us up, and we'll come and fix it for you "
...I'm sure there are stronger arguments to consider 'road side recovery' than if you're lucky enough to have your car fail at the seaside!!
07.04.2011