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• College Hall

  This is the oldest continuously used dining room in London. It was finished in 1376. Today it is the main dining hall for Westminster School.

  Architecture

• 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.

• Bell ringing days

  The Abbey bells can usually be heard before services and in celebration of church festivals and royal occasions.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity 2020

  Sunday, 11th October 2020

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity 2020: And then… the gospel. As I started looking through the readings set for today, I found myself giving silent thanks,.

• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity 2025

  Sunday, 31st August 2025

  We are called not to competition, but to communion.

• Royalty

  We’ve been the setting for every Coronation since 1066 and for numerous other royal occasions, including sixteen weddings. Find about more about our royal connections.

  Royalty

• 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.

• Recent developments

  As we make changes forced upon us we have had to think deeply about our resources and our priorities. Our resources are very much reduced.

• 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.

  Christianity

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Epiphany 2019

  Sunday, 20th January 2019

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Epiphany 2019: In the Gospels we find lots of references to wedding feasts. In the Gospels we find lots of references to.

• The Choir

  The Choir of Westminster Abbey is renowned worldwide. Comprising thirty boys and twelve adult singers, its main focus is to sing the daily choral services.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Epiphany 2018

  Sunday, 21st January 2018

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Epiphany 2018: Are we willing to get involved and share in the abundance, so be part of the ordinary becoming extraordinary? Today.

• Address given at a Service to mark the life of Florence Nightingale

  Wednesday, 9th May 2018

  Address given at a Service to mark the life of Florence Nightingale: Jesus said, Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Yesterday when I was.

• Sermon given at Festival of Our Lady of Walsingham Solemn Eucharist

  Saturday, 4th May 2019

  Into this great Abbey church - burial site of kings, the place of coronations - we have just carried a penniless peasant girl from Nazareth.

  Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham

• Westminster Abbey celebrates the life of Sir Peter Hall

  Tuesday, 11th September 2018

  A Service of Thanksgiving to celebrate the life and work of Sir Peter Hall CBE was held at Westminster Abbey on Tuesday 11th September 2018.

  Sir Peter Hall memorial service Special Service

• Sermon preached at Evensong on the feast of the Dedication of Westminster Abbey 2025

  Sunday, 19th October 2025

  The London Mayors come to Westminster Abbey.

• John Hall retires as Dean of Westminster

  Friday, 1st November 2019

  The Very Reverend Dr John Hall has retired after 13 years as Dean of Westminster. He presided at a valedictory Eucharist on Friday 1st November.

  Dean of Westminster The Very Reverend Dr John Hall

• 13th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 7th May 1998

  Delivered by Canon Eric James FKC at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 7th May 1998 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

• 16th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 10th May 2001

  Delivered by Professor Stephen Clark, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 10th May 2001 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

• One People Oration 2006

  Wednesday, 22nd February 2006

  Speaker: Mr Tony Colman (former Chair, UK Parliament UN Group)