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The abbey is a Grade I listed building, particularly noted for its fan vaulting. It contains war memorials for the local population and monuments to several notable people, in the form of wall and floor plaques and commemorative stained glass. The church has two organs and a peal of ten bells. The west front includes sculptures of angels climbing to heaven on two stone ladders.
Bath Abbey is regarded by Simon Jenkins as one of England's Hundred Best Churches. For a detailed history please see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_Abbey.
The building to the right is the entrance to the archeological site of the 1st century Roman baths, for which Bath is named. Most of the exceptional Georgian architecture in the city is a result of the 18th century rediscovery of the thermal waters. After this Bath became a kind of winter resort for the rich and famous. They of course needed fabulous residences and gardens, and the architectural beauty and coherence of the whole city is undeniable. It must have fallen out of fashion at some point, because while we were there we met locals who spoke of living in the 1960s as students on a shoestring in some of its most famous buildings. Today, judging from real estate prices, it is back to being a place for the one percenters--and of course the tourists who in daylight hours fill up this square.
Excepting some partial remains of the Roman bath complex, I believe Bath Abbey (center) is the oldest substantial structure in the city. There was probably a pagan temple here in ancient times, replaced by a succession of Saxon and Norman churches before the current building, which was begun as a Benedictine abbey church in the early 16th century. Owing to the English Reformation it was not, in fact, an abbey church for very long. And as with so many of these buildings today, it's fairly clear that while technically still a place of worship, it is probably more correct to call it first and foremost a tourist attraction. Bath Abbey, Bath, England.
Building to the heavens - to bask in reflected glory.
Begun in 1499, it is the last great gothic church in England. It is a cruciform building the size of a small cathedral, seating around 1,200 people
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The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, commonly known as Bath Abbey, is a parish church of the Church of England and former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England. Founded in the 7th century, it was reorganized in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries; major restoration work was carried out by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s. It is one of the largest examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture in the West Country. The medieval abbey church served as a sometime cathedral of a bishop. After long contention between churchmen in Bath and Wells the seat of the Diocese of Bath and Wells was later consolidated at Wells Cathedral. The Benedictine community was dissolved in 1539 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
The church architecture is cruciform in plan and can seat up to 1,200 patrons. An active place of worship, it also hosts civic ceremonies, concerts and lectures. The church has two organs and a peal of ten bells. The west front includes sculptures of angels climbing to heaven on two stone ladders, representing Jacob's Ladder. (Source: Wikipedia)
People watching in Bath, this Chinese tourist noticed my camera and asked me to take a photo of him taking a selfie with the abbey behind him, I didn’t have the heart to tell him I had been photographing him for about half an hour.
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The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, commonly known as Bath Abbey, is a parish church of the Church of England and former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England. Founded in the 7th century, it was reorganized in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries; major restoration work was carried out by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s. It is one of the largest examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture in the West Country. The medieval abbey church served as a sometime cathedral of a bishop. After long contention between churchmen in Bath and Wells the seat of the Diocese of Bath and Wells was later consolidated at Wells Cathedral. The Benedictine community was dissolved in 1539 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
The church architecture is cruciform in plan and can seat up to 1,200 patrons. An active place of worship, it also hosts civic ceremonies, concerts and lectures. The church has two organs and a peal of ten bells. The west front includes sculptures of angels climbing to heaven on two stone ladders, representing Jacob's Ladder. (Source: Wikipedia)
I'm not sure that the young lady with the dog was particularly keen on helping the Big Issue seller (on the far right of the picture), who was showing his disappointment at failing to make a sale.
Bath's High Street is right in the centre of the city and leads to Bath Abbey, which can be seen at the end of the street. The Roman Baths are just around to the right, while the River Avon is around to the left. The building on the left of the picture is the Guildhall, which was built between 1775 and 1778 by Thomas Baldwin to designs by Thomas Warr Attwood. It has been designated as a Grade I-listed building.
Bath, to state the obvious, is a city famous for its Roman baths. Around 60-70 C.E. a Roman temple was erected on the site of the three natural springs that bubble up here at a constant temperature of 46°C; and over the next 300 years a spectacular building complex was constructed for bathing and socialising. But after the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the early 5th century the buildings were left to decay and the baths eventually became unusable due to silting. Beginning in the late middle ages, efforts were made to reclaim them but it was not until the 17th century that they again functioned as a fashionable spa.
The original Roman baths are now below street level and the buildings that currently surround them are from the 18th and 19th centuries. The statues of Roman emperors and governors on the terrace overlooking the baths were actually sculpted in the late 19th century and owe their ancient appearance to the weathering effects of acid rain. Steps are now being taken to arrest this process and to stabilise them. The figure depicted here is Ostorius Scapula, Roman Governor from 47-52 C.E.
In the photograph, the Governor appears to be looking out and across to Bath Abbey. In its present form the Abbey was built between 1499 and 1616 during the English Renaissance. The exterior is constructed of Bath stone which gives it a distinctive yellow colour, accentuated here by the warm late afternoon light. The interior is adorned with a magnificent fan vaulted ceiling and 52 large windows that occupy 80% of the wall space, giving the church an ethereal sense of light and weightlessness.
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The organ, replacing an older instrument, was built in 1895 - and completely renovated in 1997 by the German firm Klais Orgelbau which has made instruments all over the world (not just England and Germany, but also for example the US, Australia, Singapore and China - the one in China, the biggest in the country).
The church is mostly known as Bath abbey - but the full name is the Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. It is now an Anglican church, but it started out as an abbey church to a Benedictine monastery. A church was first built on this spot in the 7th century - but the current building dates from the 12th to the 16th century (with some major restorations made in the 1860s) and one of the better examples of the perpendicular Gothic style.
The west doors were donated by Queen Elizabeth 1 as part of the reconstruction in 1611 after the original doors were destroyed the "Dissolution of the Monasteries" by Henry VII in 1539.
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Bath Abbey in the background... and the red object is a tourist bus......
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Bath's High Street is right in the centre of the city and leads to Bath Abbey, which can be seen at the end of the street. The Roman Baths are just around to the right, while the River Avon is around to the left. The building on the left of the picture is the Guildhall, which was built between 1775 and 1778 by Thomas Baldwin to designs by Thomas Warr Attwood. It has been designated as a Grade I-listed building.
Three different churches have occupied the site of today’s Abbey since 757 AD. First, an Anglo-Saxon monastery which was pulled down by the Norman conquerors of England; then a massive Norman cathedral which was begun about 1090 but lay in ruins by late 15th century; and finally, the present Abbey Church as we now know it.
After the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539 by order of King Henry VIII, the Abbey lay in ruins for more than 70 years. It wasn’t until 1616, that much of the building we see today was repaired and in use as a parish church. It was over two hundred years later, in the 1830s, that local architect George Manners added new pinnacles and flying buttresses to the exterior and inside. There was then a major restoration by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s and 1870s.
n April 1942, Bath was bombed as part of the ‘Baedeker’ raids. The Abbey wasn’t directly hit but the blast from bombs nearby damaged many windows. Those on the North and East sides of the Abbey were particularly badly affected. The East Window was blown out and many others needed to be replaced and restored.
The glass from the window was so badly damaged that practically every glass maker in England said that it couldn’t be restored. The glass-making firm “Clayton and Bell” took up the challenge and over ten years the window was very carefully rebuilt from pieces of original glass collected by members of the congregation and from new glass specially made. The restored window was unveiled at a special dedication service on Sunday the 13th of March 1955.
The vaulted ceiling in the chancel dates from the early 1500s.
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La Abadía de San Pedro en Bath (Somerset, Inglaterra), más conocida simplemente como Abadía de Bath es una iglesia anglicana, y anteriormente un monasterio benedictino. Fundada en el siglo VII, reorganizada en el siglo X y reconstruida en los siglos XII y XVI, es uno de los mayores ejemplos de Gótico perpendicular del sudoeste de Inglaterra. Se trata de una iglesia de planta cruciforme, con capacidad para aproximadamente 1.200 personas.
The Abbey of San Pedro in Bath (Somerset, England), better known simply as Bath Abbey is an Anglican church, and formerly a Benedictine monastery. Founded in the seventh century, reorganized in the X century and rebuilt in the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, is one of the greatest examples of perpendicular Gothic southwestern England. It is a cruciform church, which seats approximately 1,200 people
The ceiling in Bath abbey was so beautiful. The decoration looked just like sea shells. I love to admire the architecture inside churches,
Non stop drizzle all afternoon gave me this idea once it had become dark and the shops had shut.
Very difficult due to the wind blowing the rain onto the lens.
The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Bath, commonly known as Bath Abbey, is an Anglican parish church and a former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England. Founded in the 7th century, Bath Abbey was reorganised in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries. Major restoration work was carried out by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s. It is one of the largest examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture in the West Country.
The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, commonly known as Bath Abbey, is a parish church of the Church of England and former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England. Founded in the 7th century, it was reorganized in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries; major restoration work was carried out by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s. It is one of the largest examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture in the West Country. The medieval abbey church served as a sometime cathedral of a bishop. After long contention between churchmen in Bath and Wells the seat of the Diocese of Bath and Wells was later consolidated at Wells Cathedral. The Benedictine community was dissolved in 1539 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
The church architecture is cruciform in plan and can seat up to 1,200 patrons. An active place of worship, it also hosts civic ceremonies, concerts and lectures. The church has two organs and a peal of ten bells. The west front includes sculptures of angels climbing to heaven on two stone ladders, representing Jacob's Ladder. (Source: Wikipedia)
This is an image of the Roman Baths in the City of Bath in SW England. The Temple at the site was built about 70AD with the bathing complex built up over the next 300 years to the end of the Roman period of Britain. I last visited 8 years ago and this visit was while I was staying with my sister nearby for Christmas. The City of Bath was charged with responsibility for the hot springs in a Royal Charter of 1591 granted by Elizabeth I. The Roman Baths were used until the last century when a young girl died of a dangerous amoeba. Some of the hot spring is now diverted to nearby modern baths. Most of the materials at the Baths date from Roman Times and indeed it is one of best preserved Roman remains in the world
Photography is allowed but not Tripods so I got over the low light problem by placing the camera on a stone at the water’s edge and on my woolly hat and took shots with a remote release. The areas of composition I was aiming for were the line of torches, the reflections and Bath Abbey Tower in the backdrop.
The shot was taken with a Sony A68 with a 10-20mm wide angle at 13mm. 3 shots for HDR. 3 raw images 2EV spacing processed with Photomatix Fusion setting for a natural look. Topaz Clarity for more detail. Filter Lens Correction to straighten verticals. Heal and Clone tools to remove some of the people
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