Bath Abbey
Late-Gothic church with fan-vaulted ceilings and stone angels climbing ladders on its west front.
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This guide to Bath Abbey in Bath follows the church through the Tudor years after its priory was surrendered to the Crown, when a great building was measured by what its roof and windows would fetch. You'll meet a Taunton land agent, a royal auditor with a taste for tennis, and the city council that inherited a ruin it could not afford. Listen in the nave, then walk to the north aisle.
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