• I am a Tower Tour Guide at Bath Abbey. The spiral stairs are enclosed within the Towers and being five hundred years old, they are not open tread.
  • Oliver King was inspired by a dream he had where he saw angels ascending and descending from heaven.
  • The Bishop took this as a heavenly message that he should rebuild the Norman church of Bath Abbey as a great new cathedral.
  • The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, commonly known as Bath Abbey, is a sacred place of worship that has been in existence since 1499.
  • 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...
  • Overshadowing the city of Bath, its majestic abbey stands as an omnipresent reminder of the city’s complex and fascinating past.
  • It is one of the largest examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture in the West Country. The Abbey is built of Bath stone, which gives the exterior its yellow colour.
  • The carvings on the front of the Abbey were recently restored to their full glory, and show off the honey colours of Bath stone untouched by exhaust pollution.
  • The Abbey tower dominates Bath and you can see it from all around the city, but the inside of the Abbey is well worth a visit too.
  • The Bath Abbey 2000 restoration programme was launched in 1991. From then until 2000, six different projects were carried out on the Abbey.