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• A History of Royal Burials and Funerals

  Find out about the many elaborate royal funerals have taken place in Westminster Abbey prior to burial here.

  Royalty

• Sermon given at Evensong on the Second Sunday before Advent 2022

  Sunday, 13th November 2022

  Sermon given at Evensong on the Third Sunday before Advent 2022: The unknown warrior's burial somehow represents us all. When the Unknown Warrior was buried here in 1920, he was to commemorate.

  is God’s own building project, and these two burials, one at the far West, the other at the far East, tell us the truth about human nature and human vocation.

• Public History Research

  The Abbey has embarked on a programme of public history research guided by its Christian mission and commitment to be a good custodian of its heritage.

• The Abbey and the Royal Family

  British kings and queens have forged a strong bond with Westminster Abbey. Since 1066 every British monarch, except two, has been crowned here.

• The Abbey and national memory

  The Abbey is the resting place of more than 3000 great Britons: what better place to explore the concept of British Values?

  Eighteen hotspots marking key burials or commemorations are explored in this virtual tour.

• 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.

  200 years later, Edmund Spenser (1553-1598) who wrote 'The Faerie Queene' for Elizabeth I, one of the longest poems in the English language, asked to be buried...

  Notable people

• 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.

  The Abbey today viewed from the triforium galleries Coronations and burials Every monarch since William the Conqueror has been crowned in the Abbey,...

  Architecture Christianity

• The Cloisters

  The Cloisters date mainly from the 13th to the 15th centuries and were where the Abbey’s monks spent much of their time.

  The cloister garth Memorials and burials  A memorial fountain in the cloister garth commemorates Lancelot Capability Brown.

• Sermon at Evensong on the Feast of the Translation of St Edward the Confessor 2019

  Sunday, 13th October 2019

  Sermon at Evensong on the Feast of the Translation of St Edward the Confessor 2019: The warrior and the saint, on the same axis, West and East At his burial service, a.

  presence of so many burials in this and every church remind us that although “in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive,” as the inscription...

  Edwardtide

• Muniment collection

  Our archive is one of the oldest and richest in England. We hold the records of Westminster Abbey from the tenth century to the present.

  ...Society 2021 St Margaret's Westminster parish registers from 1538 To search for all baptisms, marriages and burials from 1538 to 1934 go to the Ancestry UK

• Sermon preached at Eucharist with Ordination and Consecration 2023

  Friday, 29th September 2023

  Sermon preached at the Eucharist with Ordination and Consecration 2023

  If that happens, we have a problem, there are over three thousand burials in this church.

• Architecture

  The present Abbey building dates mainly from the reign of Henry III. In 1245 he pulled down the eastern part of the 11th century Abbey.

  site was excavated fully from 2020 and more than 40 burials from the 11th century in chalk lined graves were found, as the site had been used for monastic burials,...

• 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.

  Of the many burials, a great number are of people we would never have heard of; monks and lay staff from the Abbey's first 600 years.

• Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist for the Translation of St Edward the Confessor, 2016

  Thursday, 13th October 2016

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

  Both Monarchy and Church are focused in this holy place in a very particular way through coronations and royal burials.

• Sermon given at Evensong with the Installation of Dr David Michael Hoyle as Dean of the Collegiate Church of St Peter in Westminster

  Saturday, 16th November 2019

  A month ago, the Abbey celebrated – 750 years. Which makes the Abbey older than Amsterdam.

  The shrine, the burials of our monarchs, the Cosmati pavement it is all a commentary on power and faith.

• Celebrating St Edward

  In a chapel at the heart of Westminster Abbey is the Shrine of Edward the Confessor, king and saint.

  Edward’s burial in the Abbey, the coronations and burials of many of his successors, together with commemorations of people of national and international significance,...

• Sir Thomas and Walter Hungerford

  Walter Hungerford was buried in the south ambulatory of Westminster Abbey but has no marker. Sir Thomas Hungerford was buried in a chapel now destroyed.

  It is not certain where all the burials within the demolished chapel ended up.

• A place of commemoration and remembrance

  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.

  ...in Westminster Abbey since its foundation in the tenth century, the great majority of those burials have happened since the dissolution of the monastery in

• Professor Stephen Hawking to be honoured at the Abbey

  Tuesday, 20th March 2018

  There will be a Service of Thanksgiving later in the year for Professor Stephen Hawking during which his ashes will be interred in the Abbey.

  famous scientists are buried or memorialised nearby, the most recent burials being those of atomic physicists Ernest Rutherford in 1937 and Joseph John Thomson...

  Stephen Hawking Memorial dedication

• Harry Carter

  The ashes of Harry Carter and his wife lie in the west cloister. He was Clerk of Works at the Abbey responsible for maintenance.

  He was Clerk of Works at the Abbey responsible for the day to day maintenance of the building and official houses and he acted as Sexton at burials.