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  • The Harrison & Harrison organ (1937)

    The Harrison & Harrison organ of Westminster Abbey was installed for the Coronation of King George VI in 1937. With four manuals and eighty-four speaking stops.

  • 34th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 9th May 2019

    Sir James MacMillan argues that the search for the sacred did not end with modernity in music and that it has grown and become complex.

    Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

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    We see ourselves as a living symbol of faith at the heart of the nation. Our main purpose is to be a working inclusive church.

  • 33rd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 24th May 2018

    Speaker: The Reverend Richard Coles FKC, Vicar of Finedon, Northamptonshire

  • 31st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 26th May 2016

    Roger Scruton, philosopher, public commentator and author, gives the 31st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture on the topic of The Sacred, the Profane and the Desecrated.

  • 29th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Friday, 25th July 2014

    The Reverend Dr Sam Wells, Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, gives the 29th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture on the topic 'Beyond Justice'.

  • 28th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 2nd May 2013

    Dame Averil Cameron gives the 28th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture on Constantine's Vision and the Church Today - From the Battle of the Milvian Bridge (AD 312) to the twenty-first century.

  • 21st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 11th May 2006

    Delivered by The Very Reverend Vivienne Faull, Dean of Leicester at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 11th May 2006 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • 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.

  • 12th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 15th May 1997

    Delivered by The Rt Rev. and Rt Hon. Lord Habgood at Westminster Abbey on Thursday the 15th May 1997 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • 10th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 4th May 1995

    Delivered by The Most Revd Richard Holloway D.D., Bishop of Edinburgh, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 4th May 1995 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford and Lincoln Theological College.

  • 9th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Monday, 9th May 1994

    Lecture delivered by The Revd David Conner at Westminster Abbey on 9th May 1994.

  • 8th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Monday, 24th May 1993

    Delivered by Angela Tilbyat at Westminster Abbey 24th May 1993.

  • 7th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 7th May 1992

    Delivered by John Fenton at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 7th May 1992 and at Lincoln Theological College and Keble College, Oxford.

  • 3rd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Wednesday, 1st June 1988

    Delivered by Dame Janet Baker at King's College London on Wednesday 1st May 1988.

  • 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.

  • 1st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Wednesday, 4th June 1986

    Delivered by His Eminence Cardinal Basil Hume OSB, Archbishop of Westminster at Westminster Abbey.

  • The Charles Gore Lecture 2016

    Tuesday, 15th March 2016

    Speaker: The Right Reverend and Right Honourable The Lord (Rowan) Williams; Chair: The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster

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