Bath Abbey, England
James Montagu Memorial, Bath Abbey, England[/caption] This evening, I am posting information on Bath Abbey, Bath, England. This is correctly known as the Abbey Church of St Peter and St Paul, an Anglican Parish Church. History of the Abbey site can be summarised as follows: There was an Abbey Church in Bath dating from around 757 AD which was part of a Benedictine monastery. This may have existed alongside the earlier convent founded by Abbess Bertana. The first King of all England, King Edgar was crowned on this site in 973 . The service set the precedent for the coronation of all future Kings and Queens of England. A massive Norman cathedral replaced the earlier Saxon building in the 11th/12th centuries. After the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539 by order of King Henry VIII, the Abbey lay in ruins for more than 70 years. In 1616 repair work was undertaken which brought the building into use as a parish church. In the 1830s, local architect, George Manners adde...