Entrance Fee?

You may come in to sightsee or to pray without paying anything at all. However, it costs over half a million pounds a year to look after this ancient and lovely building and to light, heat and staff it for our visitors. To add to these routine expenses, there is the ongoing conservation work which began ten years ago with our major conservation programme, Bath Abbey 2000. So far this has cost over four million pounds.

We receive no state aid or other regular outside assistance at all and our own churchgoers cannot find sums of this size on their own. We therefore look to our visitors to help us, for through their generosity shall we be able to maintain this great church - a spiritual and architectural treasure - to be enjoyed by visitors now and by generations to come. So we hope you will give what you can when you visit us. We suggest (because we are sometimes asked), a contribution of £2.50.