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Scientists
Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking and Charles Darwin are just some of the names in Scientists' Corner at Westminster Abbey. These scientists buried and remembered here made incredible contributions to our understanding of the world around us. Put your thinking cap on as we explore the natural world and beyond.
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Buried among the kings
Honouring the Unknown Warrior, a centenary after his burial in Westminster Abbey.
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Leave a legacy
Your legacy can ensure our legacy lives on. By leaving a gift in your Will, you can help preserve the Abbey for future generations.
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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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Royal tombs
Westminster Abbey is the final resting place of many kings and queens, starting with King Edward the Confessor whose shrine stands just behind the High Altar.
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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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The Charles Gore Lecture 2001
Tuesday, 13th November 2001
Every one has a worldview, whether they know it or not, just as everyone speaks prose, whether they know it or not. As someone who has spent half a lifetime working as a theoretical physicist
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Sermon preached at Evensong on the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity 2024
Sunday, 15th September 2024
God be with you till we meet again.
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Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Christmas Day 2018
Tuesday, 25th December 2018
The heart of the joy of Christmas gives almost universal pleasure.
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Sermon Given at the First Eucharist of Christmas 2015
Thursday, 24th December 2015
Sermon given by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster.
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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.
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Truth in the Public Square
Lecture given by Claire Foster-Gilbert, Westminster Abbey Institute, at the 2015 conference of the Newbigin House of Studies Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 15th July 2015.
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‘They buried him among the kings’
When Charles Dickens died at his home in Kent on 9th June 1870, it was presumed that he would be buried in Rochester Cathedral or in one of the nearby parish churches at Cobham or Shorne. This, after all, was what the author of some of the greatest novels in the English language had wanted.
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Address given at a Service of Thanksgiving to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Westminster Hospital
Thursday, 23rd May 2019
We honour the men and women who have served over the years and those who continue to serve in our own day.
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The Charles Gore Lecture 2009
Sunday, 29th November 2009
Charles Darwin has probably had more impact on religious belief than anyone else born in the last 200 years.
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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.
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Ashes of Stephen Hawking buried in the Abbey
Friday, 15th June 2018
A Service of Thanksgiving for Stephen Hawking was held at Westminster Abbey on 15th June 2018, during which his ashes were interred in the Nave.
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Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist for the Dedication of Westminster Abbey
Sunday, 16th October 2016
Sermon given by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster.
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Sermon given at Evensong on the Third Sunday before Advent 2022
Sunday, 6th November 2022
Sermon given at Evensong on the Third Sunday before Advent 2022: ‘O where shall wisdom be found?’ More years ago than I would care to admit, I was as chorister in a.
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Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Easter 2018
Sunday, 8th April 2018
Sermon given by The Reverend Dr Tony Kyriakides, Priest Vicar.
