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Britain - Photo and History Pages SOUTHERN AND SOUTH WEST ENGLAND Paradoxplace BRITISH ABBEYS AND CATHEDRALS
Bath Abbey
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Bath Abbey in Somerset - once an abbey church, then a cathedral and now the most visited "parish church" in England. The present church, built on the ruins of an earlier abbey in the early 1500s in white Bath stone, was the last major Perpendicular style church to be built in England. On the right is the entrance to the famous roman baths.
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This would have been the cloister and monastic buildings side of the abbey church, but all such structures have long since disappeared. |
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The original fan vaulted ceiling of the Choir abutting the east window. The fan vaulting in the nave was a later addition. |
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The abbey is second only to Westminster Abbey in the number of memorial tablets it contains, including ones (below) to Arthur Phillip, first Governor of New South Wales and Thomas Malthus, early economic doom merchant. |
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