Jacob's Ladder on the west façade of Bath Abbey and in church art

At school we were taught a song, "to get to heaven you need a ladder and one more thing", and I remembered its words at once when I saw the cathedral wall of the abbey in the English city of Bath, with Jacob's Ladder. A sculpted ladder on either side of the main window has become a feature of the church's west front, and angels descend it to the abbey and ascend from it.

Jacob's Ladder is a frequent element of church art and corresponds to the Old Testament episode in which the biblical patriarch Jacob sees a ladder in a dream. One of the Church Fathers, the Greek bishop Irenaeus, compared the Christian church itself to a ladder set up between earth and heaven.

I wish everyone a good morning, and do not forget the stairway to heaven and one more thing