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  • Sermon preached at Evensong on the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity 2024

    Sunday, 29th September 2024

    British holy sites series: IV Canterbury

  • Address Given by His Grace The Archbishop of Canterbury at Evening Prayer in Westminster Abbey on the Occasion of the Visit of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to Britain

    Friday, 17th September 2010

    Address given by Right Honourable Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan.

  • Sermon at Evensong on Easter Day 2019

    Sunday, 21st April 2019

    Sermon at Evensong on Easter Day 2019: One of the most enduring images of this last week was the majestic golden altar cross seen glowing among the ashes of Notre Dame cathedral..

    Easter Day

  • Sermon given at a Sung Eucharist on the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity 2023

    Sunday, 1st October 2023

    Sermon given at a Sung Eucharist on the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity 2023: Looking for just one thing. We had a lot of bishops here on Friday. The Archbishop of Canterbury was.

  • Abbey and Cathedral choirs join for Evensong

    Friday, 21st September 2012

    The choirs of Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral sang a joint Evensong at the Abbey on Thursday 20th September.

    Choir of Westminster Abbey Westminster Cathedral

  • 13th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 7th May 1998

    Delivered by Canon Eric James FKC at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 7th May 1998 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • Farewell dinner for Archbishop of Canterbury

    Saturday, 22nd September 2012

    The Dean and Chapter of Westminster gave a dinner for the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr Rowan Williams, Primate of All England and Metropolitan, and Mrs Williams in Jerusalem Chamber in the Deanery of Westminster Abbey on Friday 21st September 2012.

    Archbishop of Canterbury

  • 33rd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 24th May 2018

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

  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on St Peter's Day 2016

    Wednesday, 29th June 2016

    Sermon given by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster.

  • 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.

    One People Oration

  • Sermon at Evensong on the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity 2018

    Sunday, 7th October 2018

    Sermon at Evensong on the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity 2018: Beyond catastrophe On the Sunday before the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Randall Davidson.

  • 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.

  • Westminster Abbey takes part in Cathedrals at Night

    Friday, 28th February 2020

    The Abbey will be open from 4.30pm - 7.00pm (last entry at 6.00pm) as part of Cathedrals at Night, a project that will see all 42 Church of England cathedrals, as well as the cathedrals in Wales and the Isle of Man, open their doors free of charge.

    Cathedrals at Night

  • History of Westminster Abbey

    An architectural masterpiece of the 13th to 16th centuries, Westminster Abbey houses tombs and memorials to kings and queens and the famous and the great.

    Architecture Christianity

  • Abbey in Wartime

    On the outbreak of the second world war in 1939 many of the Abbey's treasures were evacuated for safety to country houses, such as Mentmore.

  • Sermon at the Solemn Evensong of Thanksgiving for the Canonisation of St Oscar Romero

    Saturday, 17th November 2018

    We celebrate today the canonisation of St Oscar Romero, Bishop and Martyr, that took place in Rome on 14th October 2018.

  • 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.

  • The Dean's Sermon

    Saturday, 2nd December 2006

    Sermon given by The Very Reverend John Hall, Dean of Westminster.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday before Advent 2019

    Sunday, 10th November 2019

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday before Advent 2019: We look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come I recently conducted the.

  • 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.

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