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• 24th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 14th May 2009

  Delivered by The Reverend Professor Alister E. McGrath, Professor of Theology, Ministry & Education King's College London at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 14th May 2009.

• 11th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 9th May 1996

  Delivered by David Hare, Playwright at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 9th May 1996 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

• A Homily given at Holy Communion on Sunday 4 August 2024

  Sunday, 4th August 2024

  When did you last have a good cry?

• Case studies

  Our Communities team at Westminster Abbey often works with young people on long-term projects, building relationships with community groups and organisations. Perhaps some of our previous projects and partnerships can serve as inspiration for our future together?

• Sermon given at Evensong on the Third Sunday before Advent 2021

  Sunday, 7th November 2021

  Sermon given at Evensong on the Third Sunday before Advent 2021: ‘Why pray when you can worry?’ ‘Ah yes, why pray when you can worry?’ said my husband as I fretted. ‘Why pray.

• The Coronation Chair

  The Coronation Chair is one of the most famous pieces of furniture in the world. It has been the centrepiece of coronations for 700 years.

  Royalty Coronations

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday after Trinity 2018

  Sunday, 24th June 2018

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday after Trinity 2018: ‘When in distress to him I called, he to my rescue came.’ If we ever wanted to make a complaint.

• Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Ninth Sunday after Trinity 2022

  Sunday, 14th August 2022

  Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Ninth Sunday after Trinity 2022: When God peers into my life, what does he see? Who am I and, for that matter, who are.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Seventh Sunday of Easter 2019

  Sunday, 2nd June 2019

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Seventh Sunday of Easter 2019: What does it mean to believe in the resurrection when there are no more resurrection appearances? Ascension Day passes, Pentecost.

• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday of Lent 2024

  Sunday, 17th March 2024

  And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.

• Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity 2021

  Sunday, 29th August 2021

  Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity 2021: Do we do any better than the Pharisees when it comes to hearing the ethical imperative? Do you remember.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Eve of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple 2019

  Friday, 1st February 2019

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Eve of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple 2019: Everything comes together when we think not of the sacrifice of animals but of the.

• Sermon at the The Whitehall Carol Service 2018

  Tuesday, 18th December 2018

  Is it possible or sensible to talk of a Golden Age? And if so, when might there have been a Golden Age?

  Whitehall Carol Service Dean of Westminster

• Sermon given at the Festival Eucharist in the National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor

  Saturday, 16th October 2021

  Sermon given at the Festival Eucharist in the National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor: When in 2007 we came to refurbish the shrine of Hereford’s own saint, Thomas.

• Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on St Peter's Day, 2021

  Tuesday, 29th June 2021

  Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on St Peter's Day, 2021: The life of our heavenly patron St Peter reminds us that even when we get it wrong, the love of Christ.

• 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.

  Notable people

• Sermon given at Midnight Mass at Christmas 2018

  Monday, 24th December 2018

  ‘When the angels had left them, the shepherds said one to another, “Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.”’

• Photography in the Abbey

  Visitors to Westminster Abbey are welcome to take personal photographs in the church but we ask that you do not use a flash or take pictures during services.

• Second Sunday of Lent

  Sunday, 16th March 2025

  The Reverend Mark Birch discovers how our repentance is made possible through Jesus, bringing us closer to God.

• The Nave

  The Nave is at the western end of the Abbey and contains the graves and memorials of many famous people.

  Architecture