Bath Abbey rises upward from the heart of the ancient Roman city of Bath, in the southwest of England. The church is regarded as an English architectural treasure, famous for its late medieval architecture.
Its rich history began in about 1499, when Oliver King, the Bishop of Bath, had a vision of angels climbing a ladder to heaven; he interpreted it as a divine message to build a new church, Bath Abbey, on the site of a Norman Cathedral. The church was the last great medieval religious structure built in England, in the Gothic Perpendicular architectural style.