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  • Medieval, Tudor and Stuart poets

  • Africans in Tudor and Stuart Westminster lecture

  • Africans in Tudor and Stuart Westminster Q&A

  • Stained Glass

    Westminster Abbey has very little medieval glass now remaining but there are good examples of glass from the 18th century to the present day.

    Art

  • 9th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Monday, 9th May 1994

    Lecture delivered by The Revd David Conner at Westminster Abbey on 9th May 1994.

  • 18th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 8th May 2003

    Delivered by The Reverend Professor Duncan B Forrester, New College, The University of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 8th May 2003 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • William Stuart [Steuart]

    Soldier

    The Right Honorable General William Steuart was buried in the vault of the Duke of Buckingham in Henry VII's chapel on 10th June 1726.

  • Embracing Global Challenges

    Embracing Global Challenges explored ways in which humanity can respond creatively and courageously to our unfolding story.

  • Lady Chapel

    The 16th-century historian John Leland called the Henry VII Lady Chapel ‘the wonder of the world’ and it continues to inspire wonder amongst visitors today.

    Architecture

  • 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.

  • 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 at the Sung Eucharist on the Last Sunday after Trinity 2018 commemorating the life of Walter Raleigh (c 1554–1618)

    Sunday, 28th October 2018

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Last Sunday after Trinity 2018 commemorating the life of Walter Raleigh (c 1554–1618): Do we see the hidden reality in the life of Sir Walter.

  • Benedictine monastery

    The monks at Westminster Abbey wore the habit of the Order of St Benedict, who established the Benedictine rules for the monks in about 540AD.

    Christianity

  • Vestments and frontals

    The Abbey uses many different vestments and altar hangings during the year.

  • The Charles Gore Lecture 2020

    Tuesday, 3rd March 2020

    A Theology of Hope for the 21st Century, a lecture given by Professor Jürgen Moltmann, Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology, University of Tübingen

    Charles Gore Memorial Lectures

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 12th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 15th May 1997

    Delivered by The Rt Rev. and Rt Hon. Lord Habgood at Westminster Abbey on Thursday the 15th May 1997 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • 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

  • 24th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 14th May 2009

    Delivered by The Reverend Professor Alister E. McGrath, Professor of Theology, Ministry & Education King's College London at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 14th May 2009.

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