We are in Bath.
This is the Abbey, and on this spot there has been a place of Christian worship, in one form or another, for more than a millennia. Three churches have been there, the first, in 757, an Anglo-Saxon monastery. Norman conquerors destroyed that one and a cathedral was started around 1090, but it was rubble a few hundred years later.
The first King of all England, King Edgar, was crowned here in 973. The monasteries here were closed in 1539, and in 1616 much of the current building was repaired, with new pinnacles and flying buttresses added inside and out in the 19th century. You can see the interior here.
At the top you can just make out the statue of Christ in glory. That one was hard to shoot. But this is the one just above the door, a likeness of King Henry VII. It was placed during a restoration around 1900:
These are the statues installed on either side of the main door. One is Peter and the other is Paul:
And I do enjoy this door:
