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• Oil paintings

  Several interesting oil paintings hang within Westminster Abbey or form part of its decoration. Most have been presented to the Abbey.

  Art

• Richard Tyrrell

  Sailor

  In a window recess of the south aisle of the nave is a large monument of marble to the memory of Rear Admiral Richard Tyrrell.

• Richard II portrait to go on loan to British Museum in 2012

  Wednesday, 7th September 2011

  Westminster Abbey’s portrait of Richard II is back in place at the west end of the nave after a conservation assessment carried out by Marie-Louise Sauerberg of Cambridge University’s Hamilton Kerr Institute and funded by the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Art Conservation Programme.

  Richard II

• Richard Briers to narrate Crucifixus pro Nobis

  Tuesday, 11th March 2008

  The distinguished actor Richard Briers will be the narrator at Crucifixus Pro Nobis, the Abbey’s meditation in words and music on the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ on Tuesday 11th March at 7.00pm.

  Richard Briers Passion

• 23rd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 8th May 2008

  Delivered by The Reverend Canon Dr Jane Shaw, Dean of Divinity, Chaplain and Fellow, New College Oxford and Canon Theologian, Salisbury Cathedral at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 8th May 2008.

• Abbots & Deans

  List of Abbots of the monastery and Deans of the Collegiate Church.

  Notable people Christianity

• Sermon Given at Matins on the First Sunday after Trinity 2017

  Sunday, 18th June 2017

  Sermon given by The Reverend David Stanton Canon in Residence.

• St Margaret’s Consort

  The St Margaret’s Consort is the professional vocal ensemble which provides choral music for the many high-profile services which take place in St Margaret’s Church

• Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary

  Tuesday, 15th August 2017

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

• Richard III

  Richard III was crowned in the Abbey on 6th July 1483. Almost the entire peerage of England was present at what was a magnificent spectacle.

• Richard Warburton

  Politician

  Richard Warburton, descended from the ancient family of Warburton, was buried in the south cloister on 29th October 1771, but he has no readable gravestone.

• Richard Knevet

  Richard Knevet was a gentleman pensioner of Elizabeth I and was buried in St John the Evangelist's chapel at Westminster Abbey in 1559.

• Richard Lucas

  Priest/Minister

  Dr Richard Lucas is buried in the south transept. In 1677 he published the first of many works, Practical Christianity, and was a noted preacher.

• Richard Murray

  Sailor

  Captain Richard Murray was buried in the west cloister of Westminster Abbey but has no marker.

• Richard Cobden

  Statesman

  Cobden, statesman and champion of free trade, has a memorial in the west aisle of the north transept. Dickens signed the petition for erecting it.

• Richard Guise

  Musician and Composer

  Richard Guise, singer and composer, was buried in the north cloister on 17th March 1806. He never seems to have had an inscribed gravestone.

• Richard Tufton

  In the south ambulatory is a monument of black and white marble, with an oval recess in which is a bust, to Richard Tufton.

• Richard I

  Richard I's coronation took place in the Abbey on 3rd September 1189 and is the first for which a detailed account exists, describing the ritual.

• Richard Hakluyt

  Writer, Scientist and Priest/Minister

  Richard Hakluyt, called 'the father of modern geographers', was buried in November 1616, but the place of his burial was not noted in the register.

• Richard Kempenfelt

  Sailor

  In the chapel of St Michael is a column in memory of Admiral Richard Kempenfelt by John Bacon junior