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Nelson Mandela honoured with memorial stone
Wednesday, 18th July 2018
A memorial stone to Nelson Mandela was dedicated in Westminster Abbey on 18th July 2018, the birth centenary of the former President of South Africa.
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Nelson Mandela
Statesman and Lawyer
On 18th July 2018 a memorial to Nelson Mandela was unveiled in the nave of Westminster Abbey.
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Horatio, Viscount Nelson
Sailor
One of the best likenesses of the great Admiral, Horatio, Viscount Nelson, is his wax effigy in the triforium galleries at Westminster Abbey.
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The memorial stone to Nelson Mandela in the Abbey's nave
The President of the Republic of South Africa, HE Cyril Ramaphosa, visited the Abbey on Tuesday 22nd November as part of his State Visit to His Majesty The King.
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New Collaboration to Reveal Secrets of Effigies
Wednesday, 3rd May 2017
The wax-work heads of naval hero Horatio Nelson and Prime Minister William Pitt the Elder, which are over two hundred years old, have been scanned using the world’s most advanced radiology technology in a new collaboration between Westminster Abbey, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London.
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Date confirmed for Archbishop Tutu service
Thursday, 13th January 2022
Westminster Abbey’s Memorial Evensong for Archbishop Desmond Tutu will be held on Thursday 9th June 2021 at 5.00pm.
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Westminster Abbey Honours PG Wodehouse
HRH The Duke of Kent attended the dedication of a memorial stone to PG Wodehouse at Westminster Abbey on Friday 20th September 2019.
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Sermon Given at Matins on the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity 2015
Sunday, 23rd August 2015
Sermon given by The Reverend David Stanton, Canon in Residence.
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The Choir
The Choir of Westminster Abbey is renowned worldwide. Comprising thirty boys and twelve adult singers, its main focus is to sing the daily choral services.
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Abbey plans Memorial Evensong for Archbishop Tutu
Friday, 31st December 2021
Westminster Abbey is to hold a Memorial Evensong for Archbishop Desmond Tutu who died on 26th December.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu remembered at Choral Evensong
Friday, 10th June 2022
A Choral Evensong with Thanksgiving for the life and work of Archbishop Desmond Tutu was held in Westminster Abbey on Thursday 9th June 2022.
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Sermon given at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Christmas 2022
Sunday, 2nd January 2022
Sermon given at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Christmas 2022: God is love, and love is his first gift to us. As the procession of choir and clergy entered the Abbey.
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Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Dedication of Westminster Abbey 2018
Sunday, 14th October 2018
Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Dedication of Westminster Abbey 2018: May we commit ourselves to dedicate our lives to the service of God in Christ and to the service of.
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Ernest Rutherford
Scientist and Physicist
The ashes of the physicist Ernest, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson were interred in the nave, near to the graves of Newton and Lord Kelvin.
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18th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 8th May 2003
Delivered by The Reverend Professor Duncan B Forrester, New College, The University of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 8th May 2003 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.
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2nd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 21st May 1987
Delivered by The Rt Revd Simeon Nkoane CR, Assistant Bishop of Johannesburg at King's College London.
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One People Oration 2011
Thursday, 10th March 2011
Speaker: His Excellency Kamalesh Sharma, Commonwealth Secretary-General
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William Gordon Rutherfurd
Sailor
In St Margaret's church is a tablet on the north wall to William Rutherfurd, who fought at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 with Nelson.
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VE Day 75
On 8th May 1945, Winston Churchill announced that the Second World War in Europe at an end. This was VE Day or Victory in Europe Day.
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The Duke of York attends ANZAC Day service
His Royal Highness The Duke of York attended a Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving to mark ANZAC Day at Westminster Abbey.