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• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on All Saints' Day 2023

  Wednesday, 1st November 2023

  Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on All Saints' Day 2023: God will wipe away every tear. Today's readings centre on the theme of  "Praising God and thanking Him for His love.

• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Advent 2024

  Sunday, 1st December 2024

  'Year passes year, silently; Christ’s coming is ever nearer.'

• Reflection: First Sunday of Lent

  Monday, 1st January 0001

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

• Reflection: Maundy Thursday

  Monday, 1st January 0001

  Read or listen to the reflection for Maundy Thursday

• Reflection: Palm Sunday

  Monday, 1st January 0001

  Read or listen to the reflection for Palm Sunday

• The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II

  Monday, 19th September 2022

  The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II: The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II was held at Westminster Abbey at 11:00am on Monday 19th September 2022. Before the service, the.

  State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II Special Service HM The Queen

• 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.

  Elizabeth Gaskell Poets' Corner Memorial dedication

• Queen Elizabeth II remembered during Royal carol service

  Saturday, 24th December 2022

  Tributes were paid to HM Queen Elizabeth II during the second annual Royal Carols: Together at Christmas service at Westminster Abbey.

  Christmas Royal Visit

• Henry VII and Elizabeth of York

  Henry VII’s coronation took place in October 1485. He and his wife Elizabeth were the first monarchs to be buried in the Abbey’s Lady Chapel.

• 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.

• Festival of Commemoration Evensong

  Monday, 17th November 2008

  An Evensong to mark the start of the Abbey’s ‘Mary and Elizabeth: Sisters in Hope of Resurrection’ festival took place on Monday 17th November 2008.

  Mary I Elizabeth I

• Elizabeth Hollingworth

  In the area called the Dark Cloister, leading to the Little Cloister, is a wall tablet to Elizabeth Hollingworth, widow of William.

• Elizabeth Abrahall

  On the wall of the east cloister is a small marble cartouche to Elizabeth Abrahall, wife of Gilbert Abrahall a trusted servant to Queen Anne.

• Elizabeth Gaskell

  Writer and Novelist

  In 2010 a memorial to Elizabeth Gaskell, novelist and biographer, was dedicated in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. It consists of a window panel.

• Elizabeth Cecil

  There are four Elizabeth Cecils buried here - Baroness Ros, the Countess of Berkshire, the Countess of Devonshire and the wife of Sir Robert Cecil.

• Elizabeth Woodfall

  Elizabeth, daughter of printer Henry Sampson Woodfall, was buried in the west cloister of Westminster Abbey. Her tablet no longer remains.

• Elizabeth I

  Queen Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII, was crowned at Westminster Abbey on 15th January 1559. Her large monument is in the Lady Chapel.

• Elizabeth Herrick

  In St Margaret's is a modern painted wooden tablet to Elizabeth Herrick, which replaced one which had disappeared from the church in the 18th century.

• Elizabeth Claypole

  Elizabeth Claypole, favourite daughter of Oliver Cromwell, is buried in Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey. A small stone marks her burial place.

• Elizabeth Dinwiddie

  Elizabeth, a daughter of Robert Dinwiddie, Lt. Governor of Virginia USA, was buried in St Margaret's but her memorial is now hidden behind the organ.