Help us by accessing our leaflets and maps online instead of picking up paper copies. View our leaflets and maps in your browser or download to your device before you arrive - or while your exploring - to discover more about the rich history, stunning architecture, and vibrant life of our beautiful Abbey. Completed in 2021 in Bath, United Kingdom.
Images by James Newton, Nick Hufton. The site of Bath Abbey has been the center of Christian faith in the UNESCO City of Bath for more than 1300 years. Plans of the Abbey floor showing locations of gravestones.
Printed copies of these plans are available in the Abbey. Please ask a steward or a member of staff at the Welcome Desk. Bath Abbey's Discovery Centre is located beneath the Abbey shop and features artefacts and exhibits about the Abbey's development and history.
Displays included the history of the building of the Abbey, monastic life, and the Abbey's impact on the community, the architecture and sculptures of the buildings, and the role of the Abbey in present. The works reveal all of the 891 carved memorial stones on the Abbey floor and show us the names of nearly 1500 people commemorated there. The stones represent a cross section of Bath's society from 1625 to 1845, including the important Georgian period chronicled by Jane Austen.
Wessex Archaeology was commissioned to produce a comprehensive 3D model of the restored Bath Abbey floor in addition to two separate models for the main stained-glass windows, the eastern and western windows. The Abbey floor is made up of approximately 2,400 stones, and it was the deterioration and consolidation of the burials underneath the site that had caused ongoing subsidence, and subsequent collapsing of the flooring. During the works, all 891 inscribed ledger stones that made up the floor were lifted, documented, and repaired.
The Bath Abbey Footprint Project was initiated to repair the failing floor, but goes beyond that remit, to document and research the carved gravestones that make up the floor, record the archaeology beneath the stones and install an innovative sustainable heating system to provide comfort to parishioners. Plan, elevations, sections, and specimens of the architecture of the Abbey church of Bath. Engraved by James Basire from drawings made by Mr.
John Carter, architect. Plan of the north side of Bath Abbey showing locations of gravestones.