West front of Bath Abbey church from Stall Street

A black and white photograph of the tower and entrance of a large Gothic church and the courtyard in front of it which is flanked by terraced houses, with canopied shop fronts at their ground floor level, taken from an elevated position

This is a digital positive converted from Lockey’s calotype negative, photographed on a light box.

A photographic negative of the tower and entrance of a large Gothic church and the courtyard in front of it which is flanked by terraced houses, with canopied shop fronts at their ground floor level, taken from an elevated position — The calotype negative, photographed on a light box.

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Lockey, Francis

Donation Sources: Bristol & West Amateur Photographic Assn.

Object id: D800574-08

Width: 19.8

Height: 27.5

Distance from BRLSI: 354 metres

Lockey took his photograph of the west front of Bath Abbey from the 2nd floor of the former White Hart Hotel, Bath’s oldest recorded inn, demolished in 1867. Recorded as ‘Bath Abbey’ ‘ in Lockey’s journal entry for 30 May 1859. The only surviving relic of the White Hart Hotel is the sculpture of the deer that now stands over the entrance of the White Hart Inn in Widcombe.
5 Abbey Buildings, on the right of Lockey’s photo, was where the 19 year old author Mary Shelley lodged in 1816 and wrote much of her novel ‘Frankenstein’.