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• Evening Service Address: "Abraham and Isaac"

  Sunday, 1st March 2020

  Address given at the Evening Service "Abraham and Isaac": Let us not omit our questions in the search for truth. Britten wrote Abraham and Isaac just after the premiere of his opera,.

• Sir Isaac Newton

  Scientist, Mathematician and Astronomer

  Scientist, mathematician and astronomer Sir Isaac Newton was buried in Westminster Abbey on 28th March 1727. His monument, by J.M. Rysbrack and W. Kent, is in the nave.

• The Nave

  The Nave is at the western end of the Abbey and contains the graves and memorials of many famous people.

  Architecture

• Scientists' Corner

  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.

• Jerusalem Chamber

  The Jerusalem Chamber is a medieval room with an original roof and historic tapestries woven in France. King Henry IV died here in 1413.

• Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on Christmas Day 2018

  Tuesday, 25th December 2018

  The heart of the joy of Christmas gives almost universal pleasure.

• Isaac Barrow

  Mathematician

  Isaac Barrow, mathematician, classical scholar and theologian, is buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey with a marble monument against the wall.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday after Trinity 2018

  Sunday, 10th June 2018

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday after Trinity 2018: Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. From the 2nd.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Dedication of Westminster Abbey 2018

  Sunday, 14th October 2018

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Dedication of Westminster Abbey 2018: May we commit ourselves to dedicate our lives to the service of God in Christ and to the service of.

• 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

• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday of Lent 2024

  Sunday, 17th March 2024

  And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.

• 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.

• 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

• 32nd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 11th May 2017

  Salley Vickers addresses the crucial role of the arts in giving shape and form to abiding intangible realities, suggesting the vital importance of nurturing the imagination through the arts in an increasingly secular society.

• 22nd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 10th May 2007

  Delivered by The Reverend Dr Richard A. Burridge, Dean of King's College London at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 10th May 2007 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

• Peter Newton

  On the south wall of St Margaret's church is a cartouche to Peter Newton, attributed to sculptor Joshua Marshall, originally positioned north of the altar.

• Sermon Given at Matins on the Third Sunday of Lent 2016

  Sunday, 28th February 2016

  Sermon given by The Venerable Andrew Tremlett, Canon in Residence.

• Sermon at Evensong on Palm Sunday 2018

  Sunday, 25th March 2018

  Sermon at Evensong on Palm Sunday 2018: Conversion: seeing differently.

• Isaac Watts

  Writer

  In the south choir aisle of Westminster Abbey is a marble mural monument to non-conformist minister and hymn writer Isaac Watts.

• Isaac Dorislaus

  Diplomat

  Isaac Dorislaus, diplomat, was buried in the north aisle of Henry VII's chapel at Westminster Abbey on 14th June 1649 but was later exhumed.