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The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, commonly known as Bath Abbey, [6] is a parish church of the Church of England and former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England. [7] Founded in the 7th century, it was reorganised in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries; major restoration work was carried out by ...
Bath Abbey from the Roman Baths Gallery. Bath Abbey was founded in 1499 [6] on the site of an 8th-century church. [7] The original Anglo-Saxon church was pulled down after 1066, [21] and a grand cathedral dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul was begun on the site by John of Tours, Bishop of Bath and Wells, around 1090; [22] [23] however, only the ambulatory was complete when he died in ...
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. It has had several organs since the first was installed in 1634 and multiple organists and assistant organists since the 16th century.
Bath Abbey. Bath may have been the site of the Battle of Badon (c. 500 AD), in which Arthur, the hero of later legends, is said to have defeated the Anglo-Saxons. [24] The town was captured by the West Saxons in 577 after the Battle of Deorham; [25] the Anglo-Saxon poem The Ruin may describe the appearance of the Roman site about this time. [26]
The Roman Baths are no longer used for bathing. In October 1978, a young girl swimming in the restored Roman Bath with the Bath Dolphins, a local swimming club, contracted naegleriasis and died, [6] leading to the closure of the bath for several years. [7] Tests showed Naegleria fowleri, a deadly pathogen, in the water. [8]
King organised the restoration of Bath Abbey after 1500. The story of the refounding is told on the front of the Abbey in carved Bath stone. King had a dream in which he saw a host of angels on a ladder, the Holy Trinity and an olive tree with a crown on it. He heard a voice: 'Let an Olive establish the crown, and let a King restore the Church.'
Bath Abbey Cemetery. The Anglican Bath Abbey Cemetery, officially dedicated as the Cemetery of St Peter and St Paul (the patron saints that Bath Abbey is dedicated to), was laid out by noted cemetery designer and landscape architect John Claudius Loudon (1783–1843) between 1843 and 1844 on a picturesque hillside site overlooking Bath, Somerset, England.
The roofless Abbey is given to the corporation of Bath [6] for restoration as a parish church. Dr. John Jones makes the first public endorsement of the medicinal properties of the city's water. 1576 – Queen's Bath built. 1578 – Drinking fountain installed in the Baths. 1590 – Bath chartered (city status confirmed) by Elizabeth I. [10]