Day Tour of Bath
Head of Roman God, Sulis Minerva This evening, I am reprising a one-day tour of Bath, in S.W. England.This city is best known for it's Roman origin and bath plus extensive Georgian architecture from the 18th/19th centuries. Bath Abbey First visit was Bath Abbey which is correctly known as the Abbey Church of St Peter and St Paul, an Anglican Parish Church. Inside Bath Abbey 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 r...