Abbey Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Bath, better known as Bath Abbey - a magnificent Gothic church, a masterpiece of Gothic perpendicular, one of the largest Gothic churches in western Britain.

Legend has it that the church was founded by St. David's, but most historians still inclined to think that should be regarded as the founder of King Osric, the ruler of the kingdom Hvisse, which was granted 675 Abbess Bertha large plot of land near the Bata dlyach device there convent. The monastery was subsequently converted into a male. King Offa of Mercia built the "wondrous beauty of 'church on the former site of a pagan temple, but significantly about this building is not known. Peaceful Edgar, King of England was crowned at Bath Abbey with his wife Elfriede - and this is the first coronation of the Queen of England. When Edgar in Bath Abbey became Benedictine.

In 1090 episcopal was moved to Bath, and the church with. Peter becomes a cathedral. In this regard, it begins construction of a large new cathedral of Peter and Paul, but construction is delayed and completed only in 1156. Perennial rivalry between the Bat and the nearby Wells ends that episcopal transferred to Wells. Cathedral in Bath collapses and comes to desolation, from the modest Abbey is not enough money to maintain such a large temple. In 1500, it begins the construction of a relatively small church in the Gothic style, perpendicular, and it is completed in a few years before church reforms George V. In the following years the church is destroyed, and reconstruction begins only on the orders of Elizabeth I, who ordered the establishment of a national fund for the restoration of the temple.

At the end of the XIX century, George Gilbert Scott restoration produces fan-shaped Cathedral and completes a set in accordance with the original plan. The restoration work in the XX and XXI century included a particularly thorough cleaning of the building and repair of an old organ.