Date/Time
Date(s) - 13/10/2023
10:45 am - 3:45 pm
Location
Bath Abbey
Categories
Tour around Bath Abbey and other churches in Bath – to be led by Christopher Rogers
Bath Abbey
10:50am – Assemble outside Bath Abbey
Guided tour of the Abbey from 1100
12:30pm – Church of St John the Evangelist North Parade (Roman Catholic)
Fine Pugin-inspired exterior with an elegant spire. Cruciform interior with apse. All designed by Hansom and completed in the early 20th century with a superb iron screen
Lunch
2:00pm – St Michael’s Church Without
Right in the middle of Bath, opposite Waitrose. The third church on a historic site, the present by GP Manners draws very heavily on Salisbury Gothic crammed onto a triangular site. The interior is a quite graceful hall church. Still used as a church, but also a church-sponsored cafe during the week
2:45pm – a 15 minute walk up Cornhill and along the Paragon
3:00pm – St Swinthin’s Walcot
A classic Georgian church built at the peak of Bath’s popularity. The site is ancient, but the current church was built by a local architect, John Palmer after 1777. Plain simple barn church with arcade of semi-circular windows over the galleries and dominated by fine tower and spire in the Wren tradition. Jane Austen’s family worshipped here, her parents having married here in 1764 and her father is buried here. Full of wonderful monuments to generations of the good and the great in 18th and early 19th century Bath. The monuments have very recently been cleaned to great effect.
Finish about 3:45pm and walk back downhill to Milsom Street (park and Ride buses) or onward to the railway station
Please book your place on this tour with Jeremy Groom