IMAGES OF MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE

BRITAIN: ENGLAND
BATH (BATH ABBEY)

© Alison Stones


LOCATION
Adapted from Shepherd, plate 97


PLAN
Floor Plan


EXTERIOR

©Alison Stones, Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean, 1972
General View of West Facade
Note sculptures of angels ascending the facade.

©Alison Stones, Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean, 1972 ©Alison Stones, Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean, 1972 ©Alison Stones, Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean, 1972
Left Side of West Facade Center of West Facade Right Side of West Facade

©Alison Stones, Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean, 1972 ©Alison Stones, Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean, 1972
View of Abbey from Roman Bath South Side of Abbey with Tower


INTERIOR

ELEVATION, GLASS & VAULTS
©Alison Stones, Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean, 1972 ©Alison Stones, Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean, 1972
Elevation

East End: Glass destroyed in WWII,
since restored

©Alison Stones, Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean, 1972 ©Alison Stones, Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean, 1972
Fan Vaults


FURNISHINGS
©Alison Stones, Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean, 1967 ©Alison Stones, Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean, 1967
Chapel Tomb


Preliminary Notes

Site: within city of Bath.

Monastery was Benedictine.

Length 201 Feet, width 123 feet, Height of vaults, 78 feet, Height of Tower 162 feet. (Pevsner, p 101)

Building of present structure begun  under the direction of Oliver King, Bishop of Bath and Wells (1495-1503). Said to have been desigend by the  brothers Robert and William Vertue, the master Masons to the King. (Wright, p3)


Preliminary Bibliography

Pevsner, Nikolaus. North Somerset and Bristol. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1958.

Wright, Reninald Wi. M. The pictorial history of Bath Abbey, the abbey church of St. Peter and St. Paul. London: Pitkin Pictorials, 1971.



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