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The Reverend Helena Bickley-Percival appointed Minor Canon and Chaplain
Sunday, 3rd March 2024
The Reverend Helena Bickley-Percival, Curate at St Stephen with St John, Westminster, has been appointed Minor Canon and Chaplain of Westminster Abbey.
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Abbey opens to visitors after longest closure since 1953 Coronation
Tuesday, 7th July 2020
Visitors will be welcomed back to Westminster Abbey on 11th July, after closure due to the coronavirus pandemic – the longest period of time it has been closed to visitors since the coronation.
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Dr Edge Watchorn
Find out about Dr Edge Watchorn, Deputy Director of the Westminster Abbey Institute.
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Families celebrate Christmas at royal carol service
Sunday, 24th December 2023
The selfless efforts of those who support children and families in communities across the UK were recognised at the Together at Christmas carol service in Westminster Abbey on Friday 8th December.
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Abbey finds rare 17th century manuscript in tin trunk
Friday, 3rd November 2017
The manuscript, thought to date from 1603-1604, is a copy of Donne’s The Courtier’s Library, a satirical attack on corruptions in the church and establishment: rather like a 17th century version of Private Eye.
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Abbey honours 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens
Tuesday, 9th June 2020
Charles Dickens is celebrated with a wreath laying and the release of a film of a sound and light installation which was projected onto the Abbey.
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HRH The Prince of Wales is shown a medieval monk's shoe by the Head of the Abbey Collection, Dr Tony Trowles
HRH The Prince of Wales visited Westminster Abbey today (Wednesday 14th December) to unveil the foundation stone for a tower which will take visitors into the Abbey’s new museum and galleries.
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Inhabiting a long history by The Dean of Westminster
Celebrate Holy Week and Easter with Westminster Abbey
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Podcast
Westminster Abbey's podcast is a mix of sermons, services and reflections, plus lectures on issues of faith, ethics and policy from the Westminster Abbey Institute.
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Ordination and Consecration of Bishops
Thursday, 14th May 2015
The Reverend Canon Martin Seeley, Principal, Westcott House, was ordained and consecrated Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich; and the Reverend Canon Michael Beasley, Director of Mission in the Diocese of Oxford, was ordained and consecrated Bishop of Hertford in the Diocese of St Albans at a Eucharist at Westminster Abbey on Ascension day, Thursday 14th May 2015.
Ordination and Consecration of Bishops Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich Bishop of Hertford
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Architecture
The present Abbey building dates mainly from the reign of Henry III. In 1245 he pulled down the eastern part of the 11th century Abbey.