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Bath & Body Works (3,600 square feet)
1150 Stafford Market Place, Suite 107, Stafford Marketplace, Stafford, VA
This location opened in fall 2018; it was originally an S&K Menswear, which opened in May 2004 and closed in summer 2009. It became Payless ShoeSource #5331 in the early 2010s, which closed in summer 2017.
European settlement near the Pamlico River in the 1690s led to the founding of Bath, North Carolina's first town, in 1705. By 1708, Bath had 50 people and 12 houses. It soon became North Carolina's first port. Political rivalries, Indian wars, and piracy marked its early years but in 1746 Bath was considered for the colony's capital. However, when county government moved away in the late 1700s, Bath lost most of its importance and trade. Its original town limits encompass a historic district today.
Today the swimming pool is used during the Timkat (Epiphany) festival. A priest places a blessed floating candle on the water. Crowds are set into the water and whoever gets the candle first is blessed.
Memorial plaque for Catherine Barlow, died 25 August 1861, the daughter of William Wilberforce Bird (1758-1836), MP for Coventry, 1796-1802, later prize agent and comptroller of customs at the Cape Colony.
A memorial tablet for Caroline's husband, Robert Barlow, is adjacent.
Begun in 1499, Bath Abbey is the last of the great medieval churches of England. The West Front is unique as it depicts the dream that inspired the Abbey's founder, Bishop Oliver King, to pull down the ruined Norman cathedral and raise the present building on its foundations.
Over the past twelve and a half centuries, three different churches have occupied the site of today’s Abbey: An Anglo-Saxon Abbey Church dating from 757, pulled down by the Norman conquerors of England soon after 1066. A massive Norman cathedral begun about 1090. It was larger than the monastery could afford to maintain and by the end of the 15th century was in ruins. The present Abbey church founded in 1499, ruined after the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539 by order of Henry VIII.
Worship has taken place on the site of today's Abbey for over one thousand years and continues to this day with services taking place throughout the entire week.
I love the way the buildings in Bath have an amazing unity and harmony despite their randomness on closer inspection.
This photo was taken handheld from Calton Gardens. I had hoped to get a wider shot including the abbey with my ef-s 17-55 but as it turned out the sky wasn't quite right and it was a little early for the city lights to come on. Instead, I used my my telephoto lens to zoom in on the jumbled buildings which worked quite well.