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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.

  Notable people

• 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

• One People Oration 2006

  Wednesday, 22nd February 2006

  Speaker: Mr Tony Colman (former Chair, UK Parliament UN Group)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

  Baroness Scotland

• One People Oration 2000

  Monday, 10th July 2000

  Speaker: General Sir Michael Rose

• Modern Martyrs

  Above the Abbey's Great West Door stand ten statues to modern martyrs - Christians who gave up their lives for their beliefs.

  Christianity Priest

• One People Oration 2023

  Saturday, 28th October 2023

  One People Oration 2023:.

• 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.

• 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.

• One People Oration 2002

  Monday, 17th June 2002

  Speaker: Lord Carey of Clifton (then Archbishop of Canterbury)

• One People Oration 2016

  Monday, 14th November 2016

  Speaker: Lord Evans of Weardale, former Head of MI5; Chair: The Very Reverend Dr John Hall

• One People Oration 2001

  Monday, 2nd July 2001

  Speaker: Mr Richard Dowden

• One People Oration 2011

  Thursday, 10th March 2011

  Speaker: His Excellency Kamalesh Sharma, Commonwealth Secretary-General

• One People Oration 2017

  Monday, 6th November 2017

  Speaker: Sir John Major; Chair: The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster

• Abbots & Deans

  List of Abbots of the monastery and Deans of the Collegiate Church.

• 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.

  Architecture

• History

  Westminster Abbey is a treasure house of paintings, stained glass, textiles and artefacts – and is also where some significant people are buried or remembered.

  Art Royalty

• Explore our History

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