Search this website
What are you looking for? Type something in the box and press Search.
469 results found, displaying page 2 of 24
-
Restaurant opening times
Relax over delicious food and drink, whether you’re visiting Westminster Abbey or not. The Cellarium Café and Terrace serves meals throughout the day.
-
Entry times and opening hours
We are open to visitors from Monday to Saturday. Find out more about how you can visit.
-
Opening hours
St. Margaret’s is a 12th-century church next to Westminster Abbey. It’s sometimes called ‘the parish Church of the House of Commons’. Everyone’s welcome to visit.
-
The Opening of the Field of Remembrance
The Abbey bells can usually be heard before services and in celebration of church festivals and royal occasions.
-
Services & times
A list of services taking place at Westminster Abbey this week.
-
Evensong times
This service follows the traditional pattern in The Book of Common Prayer and consists of choral music from the Anglican tradition, scripture readings, and prayers.
-
Matins times
This service, like Evensong, follows the pattern in The Book of Common Prayer and consists of choral music, scripture readings, and prayers.
-
Service times
We hold a weekly Sunday service at St Margaret's, normally an Evening Service consisting of readings, prayers, music and an address.
-
Entry Times
Entry to St Margaret’s is free. Find out more about the church with our free plan and guide or ask about the free guided tour.
-
The Nation's Memory
When Charles Dickens died at his home in Kent on 9th June 1870, it was presumed that he would be buried in Rochester Cathedral or in one of the nearby parish churches at Cobham or Shorne. This, after all, was what the author of some of the greatest novels in the English language had wanted.
-
Morning Prayer times
Brief service of psalms, readings from Holy Scripture, and prayers. Said from Monday to Saturday in St Faith’s Chapel. Entry via the Great West Door.
-
Holy Communion times
Service in which the Holy Scriptures are read, prayers offered, and bread and wine consecrated and received as the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
-
Evening Prayer times
Service following the traditional pattern in The Book of Common Prayer of psalms, readings from Holy Scripture, prayers, and a hymn sung by the congregation.
-
Sung Eucharist times
This is a service in which Holy Scriptures are read, a sermon is preached, prayers are offered, and bread and wine are consecrated and received.
-
The Queen unveils a plaque to mark the opening of the Galleries
Her Majesty The Queen with His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales visited Westminster Abbey on 8th June to open The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries.
-
Sermon given at Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday after Trinity, 2020
Sunday, 5th July 2020
We closed the Abbey doors on 20th March; a little over a hundred days ago. Then, this place of national memorial and celebration, this church that welcomes over a million visitors a year, went quiet.
-
ANZAC Day
ANZAC Day is the anniversary of the landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey by allied forces on 25th April 1915.
-
Sermon given at Evensong on the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity 2022
Sunday, 2nd October 2022
Sermon given at Evensong on the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity 2022: ‘May you live in interesting times’ ‘May you live in interesting times’ is often claimed to be a translation of a.
-
Sermon at Evensong on the Third Sunday of Advent 2019
Sunday, 15th December 2019
Sermon at Evensong on the Third Sunday of Advent 2019: Here, in this country, we are in changing, exciting, and challenging times. Well, what a momentous political week! You may have already.
-
One People Oration 2002
Monday, 17th June 2002
Speaker: Lord Carey of Clifton (then Archbishop of Canterbury)