of the abbey were demolished and the interior remodelled by George Phillips Manners who was the Bath City Architect. Manners erected flying buttresses to the exterior of the nave and added pinnacles to the turrets. Major restoration work was carried out by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s, funded by the rector, Charles Kemble. The work included the installation of fan vaulting in the nave, which was not merely a fanciful aesthetic addition but a completion of the original design. Oliver King had arranged for the vaulting of the choir, to a design by William and Robert Vertue. There are clues in the stonework that King intended the vaulting to continue into the nave, but that this plan was abandoned, probably for reasons of cost. In addition a stone screen between the choir and nave was removed. Scott's work was completed by his pupil Thomas Graham Jackson in the 1890s including work on the west front. Gilbert-Scott also designed the finely-carved pews in the nave, and are among the finest examples of Church seating from the period, and have been described as "one of the most magnificent and extensive suites of Victorian church seating in the country". Work carried out in the 20th and 21st centuries included full cleaning of the stonework and the reconstruction of the pipe organ by Klais Orgelbau of Bonn. The stonework of the west front had been subject to natural erosion therefore a process of lime-based conservation was carried out during the 1990s by Nimbus Conservation under the guidance of Professor Robert Baker who had previously worked on the west front of Wells Cathedral. Some of the damage to sculptures had been made worse by the use of Portland cement by previous work carried out in the Victorian era. A statue of St Phillip was beyond repair and was removed and replaced with a modern statue by Laurence Tindall. Rectors of Bath Abbey 1583–1584 John Long 1584–1608 Richard Meredith (as Dean of Wells from 1607) 1608–1621† John Pelling 1621–1634 George Webb (appointed Bishop of Limerick) 1634–1639 Theophilus Webb (son of George Webb) 1639–1665† James Masters (sequestered by the Westminster Assembly; restored; Sub-Dean of Wells from 1661) 1666–1680† Joseph Glanvill 1681–1711† William Clement (as Archdeacon of Bath from 1690) 1711–1733† William Hunt (as Archdeacon of Bath) 1733–1752† Thomas Coney 1752–1767† Duel Taylor 1767–1768† John Taylor 1768–1786† John Chapman (as Archdeacon of Bath) 1786–1815† James Phillott