 She ordered that a national fund should be set up to finance the work, and in 1583 decreed that it should become the parish church of Bath.James Montague, the Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1608 to 1616, paid £1,000 for a new nave roof of timber lath construction; according to the inscription on his tomb, this was prompted after seeking shelter in the roofless nave during a thunderstorm.He is buried in an alabaster tomb in the north aisle.