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 church is cruciform in plan, and is able
to seat 1200. An active place of worship, with hundreds of congregation members
and hundreds of thousands of visitors each year, it is used for religious
services, secular civic ceremonies, concerts and lectures. The choir performs
in the abbey and elsewhere. There is a heritage museum in the vaults. 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. Source
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