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Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu from South Africa, and The Very Reverend Dr Wesley Carr
Sunday, 7th March 2004
Archbishop Tutu and Dr Carr are standing in the Nave of Westminster Abbey, by the Grave of the Unknown Warrior after Archbishop Tutu had preached on Sunday 7 March 2004.
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Abbey honours Philip Larkin with Poets’ Corner memorial
Thursday, 1st December 2016
A memorial to the poet Philip Larkin CH CBE was dedicated in Poets’ Corner in the south transept of Westminster Abbey on Friday 2nd December 2016.
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Writers and thinkers
After Geoffrey Chaucer was buried here, Poets’ Corner became the place where many other creative people were buried and remembered. This space in the Abbey’s South Transept remembers people who have explored the world in all sorts of creative ways. Stretch your creative muscles with these videos.
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Abbey prays for Nelson Mandela
Wednesday, 26th June 2013
Prayers for the former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela are being included in daily Eucharists at Westminster Abbey.
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Nelson Mandela honoured with memorial stone
Wednesday, 18th July 2018
A memorial stone to Nelson Mandela was dedicated in Westminster Abbey on 18th July 2018, the birth centenary of the former President of South Africa.
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Abbey pays tribute to Nelson Mandela
Thursday, 5th December 2013
The Dean and Chapter of Westminster has sent a message of condolence to the High Commissioner for South Africa on the death of the country’s former President Nelson Mandela.
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Statesmen’s Aisle
When Charles Dickens died at his home in Kent on 9th June 1870, it was presumed that he would be buried in Rochester Cathedral or in one of the nearby parish churches at Cobham or Shorne. This, after all, was what the author of some of the greatest novels in the English language had wanted.
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Abbey Honours the Life and Work of Nelson Mandela
Monday, 3rd March 2014
His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Wales represented Her Majesty The Queen at a Service to Celebrate the Life and Work of Nelson Mandela, former President of the Republic of South Africa, at Westminster Abbey on Monday 3rd March 2014.
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Memorial to Chadwick brothers dedicated
Friday, 2nd February 2018
A memorial to two brothers, both priests and distinguished academics, Owen Chadwick OM KBE and Henry Chadwick KBE, was dedicated in the South Quire Aisle of Westminster Abbey on Thursday 1st February 2018.
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HRH The Princess Royal to dedicate Armed Forces Memorial
Friday, 17th October 2008
HRH The Princess Royal will dedicate a memorial in the Abbey’s South Cloister later this month to commemorate all those in the British armed forces who have died in conflicts throughout the world since the Second World War.
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Poets' Corner Honour for Elizabeth Gaskell
Friday, 24th September 2010
A memorial window panel in Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner to the Victorian novelist and biographer Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810 – 1865) was dedicated on Saturday 25th September 2010.
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Mrs William Quartermain
The wife of Dr William Quartermain, one of the King's Physicians, was buried in "the south part of the cross aisle" i.e. south transept.
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President of the Republic of Korea visits the Abbey
The President of the Republic of Korea, HE Yoon Suk Yeol visited the Abbey on Tuesday 21st November as part of his State Visit to His Majesty The King.
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Abbey to honour Cranford’s creator
Friday, 8th January 2010
Elizabeth Gaskell, whose novel Cranford formed the basis of one of the BBC’s prime-time television drama successes, will be honoured with a memorial in a window panel in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey.
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In the heart of the city
A reflection for Holy Week by the Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle, Dean of Westminster
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Sarah Mildmay
Sarah Mildmay, wife of Humphrey Mildmay of Queen Camel in Somerset, was buried in the south transept, at the entry to St Benedict's chapel.
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Preserving the Sedilia
Saturday, 5th January 2008
Conservation work to has begun stabilise the fragile structure of the 14th century Sedilia, one of Westminster Abbey’s greatest treasures, begins on Tuesday 8th January.
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Achilles Preston
Soldier
Colonel Achilles Preston died on 12th July 1764 aged 31 in the East Indies and his body was returned for burial in the south transept.
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Christopher Sutton
Priest/Minister
Dr Christopher Sutton was a prebendary (clergyman) at Westminster Abbey from 1605 until his death in May or June 1629.
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Sir Thomas and Walter Hungerford
Walter Hungerford was buried in the south ambulatory of Westminster Abbey but has no marker. Sir Thomas Hungerford was buried in a chapel now destroyed.
