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• 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 a Sung Eucharist on the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity 2023

  Sunday, 1st October 2023

  Sermon given at a Sung Eucharist on the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity 2023: Looking for just one thing. We had a lot of bishops here on Friday. The Archbishop of Canterbury was.

• 21st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 11th May 2006

  Delivered by The Very Reverend Vivienne Faull, Dean of Leicester at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 11th May 2006 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

• Poets’ Corner

  Poets’ Corner Westminster Abbey is a place of pilgrimage for literature lovers. More than 100 poets and writers are buried or have memorials here.

  Notable people

• Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist for the Translation of St Edward the Confessor 2017

  Friday, 13th October 2017

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

• Dignity and Public Service

  Find out about and watch a series of lectures and discussions that explore how we might heal divisions in public life.

• Edward and Sir Edmund Godfrey

  On the wall of the east cloister is a memorial to brothers Edward and Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey. The marble monument has a sculpted shield.

• Edmund Hooper and family

  Edmund Hooper, organist and master of the choristers at Westminster Abbey, was buried in the cloisters of the Abbey on 16th July 1621.

• Katharine Jefferts Schori preaches at Abbey

  Monday, 15th June 2015

  Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop and Primate Katharine Jefferts Schori has preached at Evensong on 14th June during a visit to Westminster Abbey.

  Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori

• Edmund Ayrton

  Musician and Composer

  Dr Edmund Ayrton, composer and Lay Vicar of Westminster Abbey, was buried in the north cloister. He seems never to have had an inscribed gravestone.

• Edmund Nelham

  Priest and Musician

  Edmund Nelham, musician and Minor Canon of Westminster Abbey, was buried in the cloisters in 1646 but he has no marker or memorial.

• Edmund Spenser

  Poet

  On the south wall of Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey is a marble memorial to Edmund Spenser, poet and author of The Faerie Queene.

• Edmund Mason

  Priest/Minister

  Edmund Mason, Dean of Salisbury and tutor to the future Charles I, is buried in Westminster Abbey but the exact location is not known.

• Edmund Kyrton

  Abbot

  Edmund Kyrton or Kirton was Abbot of Westminster from 1440-1462. He is buried beneath a now lost brass in St Andrew's chapel Westminster Abbey.

• Edmund Allenby

  Soldier

  The ashes of Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, were buried in the Warriors Chapel (now St George's chapel) in Westminster Abbey.

• Consecration of new Bishop at Westminster Abbey

  Thursday, 29th September 2022

  The Reverend Prebendary James Grier was ordained and consecrated Bishop of Plymouth in the Diocese of Exeter at a Eucharist at Westminster Abbey.

  Special Service

• Edmund and Frances Meyrick

  On the wall of the north cloister of Westminster Abbey is a small white marble memorial to Frances (Smith) wife of Captain Edmund Meyrick.

• Sir Edmund Prideaux

  In the north choir aisle is a monument to Sir Edmund Prideaux. He and his second wife Anne are buried nearby in the nave.

• Edmund, 1st Earl of Kent

  Soldier

  Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, was a son of Edward I. He was executed for treason in March 1330 outside Winchester castle and was later brought to the Abbey for burial.

• George Edmund Street

  Architect

  A brass in the nave covers the grave of George Edmund Street, architect. His best known work is the Royal Courts of Justice.