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• High Altar

  The Sacrarium or Sanctuary is at the heart of the Abbey where the High Altar stands.

• Vestments and frontals

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

  Christianity

• Retable

  The Westminster Retable is England's oldest altarpiece. It is acknowledged to be amongst the most important surviving examples of panel painting from 13th century England.

  Art

• Sermon at Evensong on Easter Day 2019

  Sunday, 21st April 2019

  Sermon at Evensong on Easter Day 2019: One of the most enduring images of this last week was the majestic golden altar cross seen glowing among the ashes of Notre Dame cathedral..

  Easter Day

• The Coronation Chair

  The Coronation Chair is one of the most famous pieces of furniture in the world. It has been the centrepiece of coronations for 700 years.

  Royalty Coronations

• Royal tombs

  Westminster Abbey is the final resting place of many kings and queens, starting with King Edward the Confessor whose shrine stands just behind the High Altar.

• Reflection: Second Sunday of Lent

  Monday, 1st January 0001

  Read or listen to the reflection for the Second Sunday of Lent 2024.

• Cosmati Pavement

  The Cosmati Pavement was laid down in 1268 by order of Henry III who had started re-building the Abbey in the new Gothic style.

  Architecture

• Sermon preached on the feast of the Translation of St Edward the Confessor, 2023

  Friday, 13th October 2023

  Sermon preached on the feast of the Translation of St Edward the Confessor, 2023: This is an astonishing place, and today we honour the Saint whose gift it is. On this day,.

• Processional banners

  We have six processional banners, which are carried at festivals and certain special services. At other times, they’re usually displayed either side of the altar.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• Virtual tours

  Take a virtual tour inside Westminster Abbey. View treasures including the Grave of the Unknown Warrior, the High Altar and the Coronation Chair in detail.

• Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on St Peter's Day 2016

  Wednesday, 29th June 2016

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

• Royal Weddings

  When the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were married at Westminster Abbey in April 2011, they followed a long line of British royal weddings.

• Pyx Chamber

  The Pyx Chamber is one of the oldest surviving parts of Westminster Abbey. This room in the east cloister is part of the Undercroft which was built about 1070.

• Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on The Day of Pentecost 2015

  Sunday, 24th May 2015

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

• Sermon given at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Epiphany 2022

  Sunday, 16th January 2022

  Sermon given at Evensong on the Second Sunday of Epiphany 2022: The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity On Tuesday we begin the annual week of prayer for Christian Unity. Back in the.

• Parry: Songs of farewell & works by Stanford, Gray & Wood

  Stanford’s eight-part Latin Magnificat was posthumously dedicated to Parry, whose own Songs of farewell are unmistakably valedictory in mood. Personal as well as musical associations run deep in this poignantly expressive programme, recorded in June 2019 at All Hallows’ Church, Gospel Oak.