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Bath Abbey stands at the
heart of the city of Bath; during the past twelve and a half centuries, three
different churches have occupied this site:
- An Anglo-Saxon Abbey Church dating from 757,
pulled down by the Norman conquerors of England soon after 1066;
- A massive Norman cathedral begun about 1090. It
was larger than the monastery could afford to maintain and by the end of the
15th century was in ruins;
- The present Abbey church founded in 1499, ruined
after the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539 by order of Henry VIII, was
completed in 1611.
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