Editing Bath Abbey (section)

===Modern renaissance===
[[File:Bath Abbey c1900.jpg|thumb|Bath Abbey {{Circa|1900}}]]
During the 1820s and 1830s buildings, including houses, shops and taverns which were very close to or actually touching the walls of the abbey were demolished and the interior remodelled by [[George Phillips Manners]] who was the [[List of Bath City Architects|Bath City Architect]].<ref name=":0" /> Manners erected flying buttresses to the exterior of the nave and added [[pinnacle]]s to the turrets.{{sfn|Taylor|1999|p=4}}

Major [[Victorian restoration|restoration work]] was carried out by Sir [[George Gilbert Scott]] in the 1860s, funded by the rector, Charles Kemble.{{sfn|Taylor|1999|p=4}} The work included the installation of fan vaulting in the nave, which was not merely a fanciful aesthetic addition but a completion of the original design.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}} Oliver King had arranged for the vaulting of the choir, to a design by William and Robert Vertue. There are clues in the stonework that King intended the vaulting to continue into the nave, but that this plan was abandoned, probably for reasons of cost. In addition a stone screen between the choir and nave was removed.{{sfn|Taylor|1999|p=4}} Scott's work was completed by his pupil [[Thomas Graham Jackson]] in the 1890s including work on the west front.{{sfn|Forsyth|2003|pp=57–58}} Gilbert-Scott also designed the finely-carved pews in the nave, and are among the finest examples of Church seating from the period, and have been described as "one of the most magnificent and extensive suites of Victorian church seating in the country".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lawandreligionuk.com/2018/03/20/bath-abbey-pews-refusal-of-permission-to-appeal/|title=Bath Abbey pews: refusal of permission to appeal &#124; Law & Religion UK|first=David|last=Pocklington|access-date=25 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190426081937/https://www.lawandreligionuk.com/2018/03/20/bath-abbey-pews-refusal-of-permission-to-appeal/|archive-date=26 April 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

Work carried out in the 20th and 21st centuries included full cleaning of the stonework and the reconstruction of the [[pipe organ]] by [[Klais Orgelbau]] of [[Bonn]]. The west
front of the building, having decayed badly in the 500 years since it was built, has been subject to almost wholesale restoration.{{sfn|Luxford|2000|p=317}} The stonework of the west front had been subject to natural erosion therefore a process of lime-based conservation was carried out during the 1990s by Nimbus Conservation under the guidance of Professor Robert Baker who had previously worked on the west front of [[Wells Cathedral]]. Some of the damage to sculptures had been made worse by the use of [[Portland cement]] by previous work carried out in the [[Victorian era]]. A statue of St Phillip was beyond repair and was removed and replaced with a modern statue by Laurence Tindall.{{sfn|Taylor|1999|pp=5–6}}