A series of Lent lectures and Study Days open to all, led by Canon Professor Nicholas Sagovsky, Westminster Abbey

For those who wish, an associated MA assignment giving 15 credits is available (registration fee payable).

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Westminster Abbey has a unique place in the life of the nation. Edward the Confessor’s Abbey, of which little remains, was replaced by Henry III in the thirteenth century with an even more magnificent building. In these monastic churches the monks of Westminster prayed daily for five hundred years. This daily prayer continues today. For nearly a thousand years Westminster Abbey has also been the coronation church. It contains the coronation chair made for Edward I and used at all coronations since. The Abbey is the burial place of kings and queens, the most prominent being Saint Edward himself. It contains the tombs of the humble and the great, from the Clerk of the Works at the Royal Palace, Geoffrey Chaucer, to scientists such as Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. In this series of lectures, distinguished lecturers will examine the extraordinary history and identity of Westminster Abbey. Those who have the responsibility for the Abbey today will reflect on its present and future role in the life of the nation.