Bath Abbey's Monuments: An Illustrated History

by Oliver Taylor

Bath Abbey has a nationally significant collection of 1,500 church monuments, more than any other church in the country: three times the number of ledger stones and an equal number of wall tablets as Westminster Abbey. These monuments chart the rise of Georgian Bath, from market town to leisure capital. They tell the stories of parishioners, visitors to the spa, the doctors who treated them, and the sculptors who commemorated them. The social history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750993731
• ISBN13: 9780750993739
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 324 Pages