There are over 600 memorials on the walls of the Abbey. One of the earliest is to Richard Chapman, who died in 1572 and was Alderman of Bath. Although many of the memorials are to the rich and ...

Award RIBA South West and Wessex Award 2024, RIBA South West and Wessex Conservation Award 2024 and RIBA National Award 2024 Setting out to improve the experience for worshippers, visitors, and ...

'It's not enough: I want to live somewhere beautiful'. Have you thought about York, Canterbury, Lincoln, Ely, Harrogate, ...

The Abbey's tenor bell weighs 33 cwt, about the same as a small car! It is inscribed: 'All of you Bathe that hear me sound Thank Lady Hopton's hundred pound'. In 1897 it was restored so that the ...

QUESTION: Why have a number of statues in Bath Abbey been defaced with graffiti? Bath Abbey wasn’t always free-standing.

The Prime Minister has praised Bath’s “direct link” with a Ukrainian city in the House of Commons.

The English coronation service proper was drawn up by St Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, for the grand coronation of Edgar, first King of All England, at Bath Abbey. The first documented coronation ...

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath was established as a military order by Letters ... In about 1749 artist Canaletto painted the exterior procession of Knights leaving the Abbey. The Order was ...

Everything is free. There's been a church on the site of Bath Abbey as long ago as Saxon times. What you see now dates from 1499 – it is one of the last ecclesiastical buildings in England ...

Speaking the next day in the House of Commons, Bath MP Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat) said: “The Ukrainian deputy ambassador was there, and he particularly praised the direct link that my Bath ...