Effective public communication Revised

EFFECTIVE PUBLIC
COMMUNICATION
ORAL PRESENTATION (1)
Name: MichaelChangVui Loong
Student ID : 0319198
Course: COM 30103
Submission Date: 19/1/2015
Topic 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 theWest
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
ofWorcester
 That most famous monastery at Bath
 The architecture of this first building on the
site
 Adopt the Rule of Saint Benedict - introduced
at Bath

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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
WilliamVertue
 Flying buttresses
 Pulpit and seating
 Reredos

Monuments
 Memorial toWilliam 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.

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