Very few churches in England have been the setting for a monarch's coronation.  This honour came to Bath Abbey on Whitsunday 973 when Edgar, Prince of the Royal House of Wessex and King of Mercia, was crowned the first effective ruler of all England.  The order of service devised then for Edgar's crowning has been the basis of coronations in England ever since.

The Edgar Window at the East end of the Abbey depicts the ceremony, conducted by St Dunstan and St Oswald.

A stone in the floor in the chancel marks the visit, in 1973, of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, to commemorate the thousandth anniversary of Edgar's crowning.