The Abbey Church of saints Peter and Paul, bath, commonly known as Bath Abbey – a magnificent Gothic Church, a masterpiece of perpendicular Gothic, one of the largest Gothic churches in the West of Britain.

The legend tells that the Church was founded by Saint David, but most historians are inclined to think that the founder should be considered as king Osric, the ruler of the Kingdom of Hwicce that in the year 675 granted the abbess Berta a large plot of land near Bata DSC device convent there. The monastery was subsequently converted into a male. King Offa of Mercia built a "wondrous beauty" Church on the site of a former pagan temple, but it about this building is not known. Edgar the Peaceful, king of England was crowned in Bath Abbey, along with his wife Alfredo – and this is the first occasion of the coronation of the Queen of England. When Edgar in bath Abbey Benedictine becomes.

In 1090 Episcopal see was moved to bath, and the Church. Peter becomes a Cathedral. In this regard, begins construction of a new large Cathedral of Peter and Paul, but construction is delayed and completed only to 1156. The longstanding rivalry between Bath and the nearby wells ends the fact that an Episcopal see transferred to wells. The Cathedral in bath breaks down and comes to desolation, modest Abbey is not enough money to maintain such a large temple. In 1500 begins construction of a relatively small Church in the perpendicular style of Gothic, and it ends a few years before ecclesiastical reforms of George V. In subsequent years, the Church destroyed, and reconstruction begins only on the orders of Elizabeth I, who ordered to establish a national Fund for the rebuilding of the temple.

In the late nineteenth century by George Gilbert Scott produces the restoration of the Cathedral and completes the fan vault in accordance with the original plan. Restoration work in the twentieth and twenty-first century included a particularly thorough cleaning of the building and renovation of the old body.