Bath Abbey Floor

This pioneering 19 3million initiative will preserve the beautiful space we have and open it up in new ways to be enjoyed in its full glory by future generations.

Bath abbey floor.

Making a mark the footprint project at bath abbey is also about moving from past to future. Not all of the ailing visitors were healed. Parts of bath abbey s floor are collapsing reducing our capacity to serve the city. In partnership with churches in bath bath abbey will be hosting an online alpha course by zoom.

Participants will be encouraged to join in conversations watch videos and ask questions. The floor is sinking where bodies buried beneath it have decomposed. The course offers an opportunity to take a fresh look at the life and teachings of jesus christ all from the comfort of your own sofa. This has resulted in huge gaps being created making the floor unstable.

Buy bath abbey bath uk by douglas e. The abbey is committed to being a place for the city and the church to gather at moments of celebration crisis and decision. Playfair said bath s popularity as a place to take the waters as a cure in the 17th and 18th centuries have led to the problems with the abbey s floor. Bath abbey vaults the abbey is built of bath stone which gives the exterior its yellow colour and is not a typical example of the perpendicular form of gothic architecture.

Archaeologists have made a once in a lifetime find in discovering a stunning 13th century tiled floor under bath abbey. The amazing discovery was made at bath abbey in somerset which was initially founded in the 10th century as part of vital repair work to the abbey s collapsing floor. The bath abbey footprint project is a heritage lottery fund project to repair the abbey s collapsing floor install a new eco friendly heating system using bath s hot springs and provide new improved space and facilities to ensure the abbey is more sustainable hospitable and useable for local residents worshippers and visitors alike. The low aisles and nave arcades and the very tall clerestory present the opposite balance to that which was usual in perpendicular churches.