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Bath Abbey

Daily

Cost: Donation £2.50; students & children £1

Hours: Mon-Sat 9am-6pm (until 4.30pm Nov-Mar); Sun 1pm-2.30pm & 4.30pm-5.30pm

Bath is dominated by the imposing Abbey, built on the site of a Saxon monastery where the first King of Bath was crowned in 973. It has beautifully restored stonework and some of the finest fan vaulting in the country.

Over 500 years old, the abbey frequently plays host to organists, choirs and orchestras, often as part of the Bath Festivals programme.

Out in the churchyard is the unique Jacobs Ladder, showing the rise of the angels to heaven and the fall of the devils to hell. Beneath the abbey, the Heritage Vaults Museum tells the story of 1600 years of Christianity in the city.

Bath Abbey