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  • The Sermon preached at the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III

    Saturday, 6th May 2023

    The Sermon preached at the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III: We are here to crown a King, and we crown a King to serve. We are here to crown a.

  • 24th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 14th May 2009

    Delivered by The Reverend Professor Alister E. McGrath, Professor of Theology, Ministry & Education King's College London at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 14th May 2009.

  • A history of coronations

    Westminster Abbey has been Britain’s coronation church since 1066, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II. King Charles III will be crowned on 6th May 2023.

    Royalty Coronations

  • The King Charles III Sacristy

    We’re transforming the welcome we offer to the millions of people who come to the Abbey to enjoy one of the world’s great churches. A new building – to be named The King Charles III Sacristy in honour of HM The King – will be constructed to house state-of-the-art welcome, security and ticketing facilities, allowing the Abbey itself to be preserved in all its beauty and wonder as a sacred space.

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  • Sermon at Matins on Good Friday 2018

    Friday, 30th March 2018

    Sermon at Matins on Good Friday 2018: Why should the tortured death of one man on a cross 2000 years ago on a scrubby hill in the Middle East matter to us.

  • Abbey honours 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens

    Tuesday, 9th June 2020

    Charles Dickens is celebrated with a wreath laying and the release of a film of a sound and light installation which was projected onto the Abbey.

    Charles Dickens Wreathlaying

  • Charles Gore lecture: Theology for Commonwealth: God’s Dreaming, Common Worth, Planetary Communion

    Wednesday, 17th September 2025

    Join us for a lecture that offers a theology look for Commonwealth by turning our attention from Word to Dreaming, from wealth to worth, from common good to planetary communion.

    Charles Gore Memorial Lectures

  • Service of Thanksgiving for the Life and Work of Sir Charles Wheeler CMG

    Tuesday, 20th January 2009

    A Service of Thanksgiving for the Life and Work of Sir Charles Wheeler CMG was held at Westminster Abbey on Tuesday 20th January 2009.

    Sir Charles Wheeler Special Service

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on Corpus Christi 2019

    Thursday, 20th June 2019

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on Corpus Christi 2019: Christians have been accused of cannibalism since earliest times. Christians have been accused of cannibalism since earliest times, and someone walking off the.

    Corpus Christi

  • Evensong & Wreathlaying at the grave of Charles Darwin

    Thursday, 12th February 2009

    Westminster Abbey honoured the memory of Charles Darwin, the naturalist and father of the theory of evolution, with a short service and a floral tribute on the 200th anniversary of his birth.

    Charles Darwin

  • Hope

    The capacity to hope is common to human experience, and often confounds easy answers.

  • Truth

    In the world of public service, trustworthiness, dependability, wise decision-making and solid relationships all depend upon truth.

  • In the Public Eye

    The media make people and events public. Love it or loathe it, people in public life have to live with it.

  • Sermon Given at Matins on the First Sunday after Trinity 2015

    Sunday, 7th June 2015

    Sermon given by The Reverend Professor Vernon White, Canon in Residence.

  • Sermon Given at Matins on the Seventh Sunday after Trinity 2016

    Sunday, 10th July 2016

    Sermon given by The Reverend David Stanton, Canon in Residence.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday of Easter 2019

    Sunday, 12th May 2019

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday of Easter 2019: Tell us plainly what we need to know! The people asked: ‘If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.’ Jesus.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2023

    Sunday, 30th July 2023

    Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2023: Our life and our work can be given the dignity of revealing something of the kingdom of heaven. The.

  • Charles Gore Seminar: Memory, identity and hope

    Thursday, 20th March 2025

    Join us for a seminar evening considering theological and cultural reflections on the Commonwealth today.

  • The Poetics of Life: Life as Poetry

    Wednesday, 18th September 2024

    Join us in the Abbey as Professor Catherine Pickstock gives the annual Charles Gore lecture.

    Voice and Verse

  • Charles Ignatius Sancho honoured with St Margaret’s memorial

    Tuesday, 19th December 2023

    Charles Ignatius Sancho, who escaped from a background of slavery and rose to distinction in Georgian London, has been honoured with a new memorial.

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