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• Sermon given at the State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

  Monday, 19th September 2022

  Sermon given at the State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: The pattern for many leaders is to be exalted in life and forgotten after death.

  State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II

• Funeral and wax effigies

  Find out about the funeral effigies at the Abbey.

  Royalty

• Royal funeral assembly for primary

• Royal funeral assembly for secondary

• Address given at the Funeral of Dame Beulah Bewley

  Tuesday, 13th February 2018

  Address given by The Reverend Ralph Godsall, Priest Vicar.

  Dame Beulah Bewley

• Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 2022

  Sunday, 25th September 2022

  Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 2022: Honest and the knowledge that a different sort of community exists in God and can be ours. I have.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on All Souls' Day 2018

  Friday, 2nd November 2018

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on All Souls' Day 2018: We do not believe we lose any of those who have died and gone before us from our greater company. Two beloved.

• The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II

  Monday, 19th September 2022

  The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II: The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II was held at Westminster Abbey at 11:00am on Monday 19th September 2022. Before the service, the.

  Special Service HM The Queen

• Abbey staff honoured for role in The Late Queen’s funeral

  Monday, 27th March 2023

  Three members of the Abbey staff have been honoured for their role in the funeral of The Late Queen last September.

• Modern slavery statement

  This statement constitutes Westminster Abbey’s ‘Modern Slavery Transparency Statement’, pursuant to Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. It concerns both Westminster Abbey (‘The Abbey’) and its subsidiary company, Westminster Abbey Enterprises Limited (hereafter ‘WAEL’), pertaining to the financial year ending 29th September 2025. This is the Abbey’s first Modern Slavery Transparency statement.

• 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.

• The Funeral of Tony Benn

  Wednesday, 26th March 2014

  The funeral of Labour former Cabinet minister Tony Benn took place at St Margaret’s Church Westminster Abbey on Thursday 27th March 2014.

  Tony Benn funeral

• 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.

  Chelsea and Westminster Hospital 300th anniversary

• 26th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 26th May 2011

  Delivered by Richard Chartres KCVO, Bishop of London at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 26th May 2011 and at Keble College, Oxford on Friday 27th May 2011.

• 15th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 4th May 2000

  Delivered by The Reverend Canon Dr Martyn Percy at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 4th May 2000 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford and the Cathedral, Sheffield.

• 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.

• Fishmongers' Company

  Philanthropist

  The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers were generous benefactors to the restoration of the Lady Chapel in 1992-1995. A small decorated metal plaque commemorates this.

• Funeral benefactor

  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.

• The Queen’s funeral to be held at Westminster Abbey

  Saturday, 10th September 2022

  Buckingham Palace has announced that the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II will be held at Westminster Abbey at 11am on Monday 19th September.

• Funeral procession

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