Bath Abbey

A friend that Gavin works with invited us to a rugby game in Bath, so I thought I would spend the afternoon there and meet Gavin and his friend after work. Turns out there wasn't a game, but I had a nice afternoon anyway.

Gavin's work did a reward for the people in his department. They were going to do a James Bond type of car driving, but that got canceled. They were going to do mini golfing instead, but that got rained out, so they did a afternoon tea and toured the Bath Abbey. Just as good as James Bond driving! Gavin really enjoyed the tour and told me I should check it out sometime, so that's what I did with my afternoon.

I love the high ceilings with the fans on top.

They have stained classes depicting different events from Christ's life.

The fans on the ceiling.

This is the roof of the ceiling.

You can see where the columns are. There is a hole there where they can see into the hall, but I didn't get close enough to see.

This is where the bell ringers pull the ropes to play the bells.

This is also where they can play the bells. Here, just one person can play a song compared to the ten needed to pull the ropes.

This is in the bell chamber. We were up there when the bells went off for the half past the hour. It was really loud.

This is the biggest bell they had. It weighs about 2 tons.

We were able to go on the roof of the Abbey. It was an incredible view. It was such a beautiful day as well.

That's the tour guide and the little winding stair case we walked up. It was over 200 steps to get there.

Walking along the roof.

That's the top of the Abbey, where we went.

Some of the stairs. We went down a different staircase going down, but the ones going up were smaller and steeper.

Looking up the Abbey over the Grand Doors.