Soaring Perpendicular Gothic Architecture of Bath Abbey
by Mark Tisdale
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Soaring Perpendicular Gothic Architecture of Bath Abbey
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Mark Tisdale
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Photograph - Photo Art
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My last trip to England was in the late summer, almost fall. The weather for most of that trip was surprisingly predictable. The days started out overcast but they all seemed to end with beautiful light and cloud streaked skies. Such was how how night fell on my one and only night in Bath, and for that I was quite thankful.
When you spend a night in a city, you truly take your chances on what kind of light you might get. But as the city lights of Bath came on, the night skies were deep dusk blue and streaked with clouds. Almost a watercolor sky in its own right.
And since I'm a sucker for beautiful old architecture, that one dusk night found me standing outside the beautiful Abbey Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, otherwise known simply as Bath Abbey!
Like so many of the old medieval churches in England, it had a face lift during the 19th century. It was also during this century that Gothic Revival architecture flowered. Suddenly there was an interest in all things medieval and Gothic. The results are not always in keeping with the original Medieval Gothic but they are at least sympathetic to the original designs in Bath.
Don't you love how the lines of Perpendicular Gothic architecture all point up into that beautiful night skies? Ah Bath, it was too short a visit, but it was well worth it!
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August 28th, 2013
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