Bath Abbey could be linked to the city's Roman water network to heat the vast medieval church using ancient underground springs. The idea has been in the pipeline for years, but now excavation ...

Bath Abbey (pictured) could use 45C water from the city's Roman drains to provide the world's first natural underfloor heating system, costing £18million.

The Roman Baths, Pump Room and Bath Abbey are in close proximity to each other in the Georgian city. ... Every day 250,000 gallons (1.137ML) of water with a temperature of about 45C ...

Wera Hobhouse, MP for Bath, said the abbey heating project would be widely welcomed by the city’s inhabitants as an innovative new use of the ancient waters for which it became famous.

The 2000-year-old Great Drain of the Roman baths runs past the abbey, metres under the ground, carrying water to the River Avon. More than one million litres of hot water flow through the Baths each ...

Bath Abbey, which dates back to 1499, sits on the remains of a massive Norman cathedral. Three different churches have occupied the site and since the early 1500s, thousands of people have been ...

Work to install eco-friendly heating in Bath Abbey using hot water from the city’s Roman baths is close to completion. The new system, which is being switched on this week, has seen underfloor ...

The ancient Roman Baths and the Bath Abbey are adjacent in the town center at the ... This geothermal cycle pushes 257,364 ...

Don't worry - it spews out at the rate of 240,000 gallons a day, so the bath water has been changed quite a few times. By nature, I'm more of a skiing, snorkeling, hiking and biking kind of traveler.

The Roman Baths, Pump Room and Bath Abbey are in close proximity to each other in the Georgian city. ... (1.137ML) of water with a temperature of about 45C (113F) ...

Test repairs are made to part of Bath Abbey's floor to allow experts to monitor if the method could save the whole of it from eventual collapse. BBC Homepage. Skip to content; ...