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Famous people / organisations
Find out about the 3,300 people buried and others commemorated at Westminster Abbey, many of them among the most significant in the nation's history.
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Sir John Major gives One People Oration
Monday, 13th November 2017
Sir John Major gave the annual One People Oration at Westminster Abbey on 6th November, peaking on the theme The Responsibilities of Democracy.
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One People Oration: Dignity and Poverty
Tuesday, 28th November 2023
Dame Clare Moriarty, Chief Executive of Citizens Advice, gives this year’s One People Oration.
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Dean of Westminster gives One People Oration
Tuesday, 22nd October 2019
The Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend Dr John Hall, gave this year’s One People Oration at Westminster Abbey on Monday 21st October 2019.
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One People Oration 2019
Monday, 21st October 2019
There are many churches and cathedrals in the world, some of which are more beautiful, more ancient, more glorious than Westminster Abbey.
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Poets’ Corner
Poets’ Corner Westminster Abbey is a place of pilgrimage for literature lovers. More than 100 poets and writers are buried or have memorials here.
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One People Oration
The One People Oration is an annual lecture intended to make people “think not only of all Christian people but of all mankind”.
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One People Oration 2006
Wednesday, 22nd February 2006
Speaker: Mr Tony Colman (former Chair, UK Parliament UN Group)
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One People Oration 2021
Tuesday, 16th November 2021
In conversation with the Dean of Westminster, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick will draw on her long experience in the police force and now as its most senior leader to discuss the meaning of serving as a leader.
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One People Oration 2018
Tuesday, 16th October 2018
The Rt Hon Baroness Scotland of Asthal QC, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth gives the One People Oration 2018 on the theme of Embracing Global Challenges.
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Modern Martyrs
Above the Abbey's Great West Door stand ten statues to modern martyrs - Christians who gave up their lives for their beliefs.
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One People Oration 2000
Monday, 10th July 2000
Speaker: General Sir Michael Rose
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One People Oration 2023
Saturday, 28th October 2023
One People Oration 2023:.
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Order of the Bath
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath was established as a military order by George I on 18th May 1725. Since then the Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey has been used as their chapel.
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St Margaret's people
Clergy, musicians, bell-ringers, vergers and support staff – these are just some of the people who run St Margaret’s Church, Westminster.
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St Margaret’s people
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.
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Royalty and famous people
Westminster Abbey is a treasure house of paintings, stained glass, textiles and artefacts – and is also where some significant people are buried or remembered.
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Abbots & Deans
List of Abbots of the monastery and Deans of the Collegiate Church.
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RAF Chapel
At the eastern end of the Lady Chapel is the Royal Air Force chapel dedicated to the men who died in the Battle of Britain in 1940.
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Institute people
Westminster Abbey Institute works with the public service institutions around Parliament Square to revitalise moral and spiritual values in public life.