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===Windows=== [[File:Bath Abbey Eastern Stained Glass, Somerset, UK - Diliff.jpg|thumb|right|254px|The stained glass and altar at the eastern end of the nave]] The building has 52 windows, occupying about 80 per cent of the wall space. The east end has a square-framed window of seven lights.<ref name="sacreddest" /> It includes a depiction of the nativity made by [[Clayton and Bell]] in 1872,<ref>{{cite web|title=Nativity β Bath Abbey Stained Glass Window Transfer New!|url=http://www.acnuk.org/products.php/306/nativity-bath-abbey-stained-glass-window-transfer|publisher=Aid to the Church in Need|access-date=16 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402130511/http://www.acnuk.org/products.php/306/nativity-bath-abbey-stained-glass-window-transfer|archive-date=2 April 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> and was presented to the church by the Bath Literary Club.{{sfn|Perkins|1901|pp=17β28}} The window of the [[Four Evangelists]] over the northwest door is a memorial to Charles Empson, who died in 1861.{{sfn|Perkins|1901|p=17}} In 2010 a stained glass window was uncovered in the abbey vaults. The design around the window is by [[William Burges]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Bath Abbey window design confirmed as William Burges|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8937000/8937422.stm|access-date=16 September 2011|newspaper=BBC|date=23 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171001032659/http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8937000/8937422.stm|archive-date=1 October 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=William Burgess designs in stained glass window found in the Abbey Chambers vaults in Bath|url=http://www.bathaquaglass.com/williamburgesswindowbath.html|publisher=Bath Aqua Glass|access-date=16 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331042828/https://www.bathaquaglass.com/williamburgesswindowbath.html|archive-date=31 March 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
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