EFFECTIVE PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONORAL PRESENTATION (1)

Name: Michael Chang Vui LoongStudent ID : 0319198Course: COM 30103Submission Date: 19/1/2015Topic 2(a)

Contents

Location

Religious Building

Historical Background

Structure & layout

Ornaments

Materials

Location

City: Bath

Country: England

State: United Kingdom

Religious Building

Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Bath Bath Abbey Perpendicular Gothic architecture in the West

Country Congregation members & visitors Religious services, secular civic ceremonies,

concerts and lectures War memorials - wall and floor plaques and

commemorative stained glass Sculptures of angels climbing to heaven on two

stone ladders.

Historical Background

675 - King of the Hwicce - establishment of a convent

Monastery under the patronage of the Bishop of Worcester

That most famous monastery at Bath

The architecture of this first building on the site

Adopt the Rule of Saint Benedict - introduced at Bath

Structure & Layout

Ornaments

Windows

Towers

Bells

Exterior

Interior

Monuments

Main Organ

Continuo Organ

Windows

52 windows

80% of the wall space

The window of the Four Evangelists -memorial to Charles Empson - died in 1861

2010 - Stained glass window –William Burges

Towers

Two-stage central tower - square - oblong

Two bell openings - each side - four polygonal turret pinnacles

161 feet (49 m) high

212 steps

Bells

1700

10

The tenor weighs 33 cwt (3,721 lb or 1,688 kg)

Centre of change ringing –West country

Exterior

The sculptures of angels climb Jacob's Ladder on the west front of Bath Abbey

Interior

Interior fan vaulting ceiling - Robert and William Vertue

Flying buttresses

Pulpit and seating

Reredos

Monuments

Memorial to William Bingham

617 wall memorials and 847 floor stones

Main Organ

63 speaking stops over four manuals and pedals

Continuo Organ

Contained in a case of dark oak

Portable

Can be tuned to three pitches: A=440 Hz (modern concert pitch), A=415 Hz and A=486 Hz.

Materials

Bath stones

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