Bath Abbey

Bath is a town that goes all the way back to Roman times, and had a very different name then, as we shall see, but today it is named after the hot spring Roman bath which is in the center of town and draws tourists and locals alike, to see what Roman leisure culture was like. The town for more than a century and a half has been famous for its Georgian architecture dating to the 18th century, for instance… the famous semi-circle of Georgian flats… The wealthy lived next to a pleasant green and not in the center of town. But the Abbey was indeed in the center of town near everything, including the Roman baths. During the period of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), when the spirit of iconoclasm reigned supreme and he was Lord Protector ( 1653-58– more like lord destroyer) and even before then when Henry the VIII closed numerous monasteries major Catholic churches and abbeys and monasteries were vandalized, or destroyed or just closed. Bath Abbey was closed by Henry the VIII in 1539, and various of its raw materials– lead, glass, iron were sold off, by Queen Elizabeth I rescued the remains by giving those remains to the city and also made a royal fund-raising decree to restore what was lost...