|
  
 |
|
Bath Abbey stands at the heart of the city of Bath; during
the past twelve and a half centuries, three different churches have occupied
this site:
- An Anglo-Saxon Abbey Church dating from 757, pulled
down by the Norman conquerors of England soon after 1066;
- A massive Norman cathedral begun about 1090. It was
larger than the monastery could afford to maintain and by the end of the 15th
century was in ruins;
- The present Abbey church founded in 1499, ruined after
the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539 by order of Henry VIII, was
completed in 1611.
Abbey Archives
|
