This is Bath Abbey's fan vault ceiling, which was added by Sir George Gilbert Scott during his renovation of the church from 1864 to 1874. An Anglo-Saxon monastery first occupied the site of the Abbey in 757 AD, but this was pulled down and replaced by a Norman cathedral in 1090. The cathedral fell into ruin, and was replaced by the Abbey Church in the late 15th century. The Abbey lay in ruins for 70 years after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, but was eventually repaired and used as a parish church.
