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Florence Nightingale remembered at annual service
Monday, 12th May 2025
A Service to Commemorate the Life of Florence Nightingale was held at Westminster Abbey at 6.30pm on Wednesday 12th May 2025. The service is held annually to celebrate nursing and midwifery and all staff, both qualified and unqualified, and the importance of supporting one another through challenging times.
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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.
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Oil paintings
Several interesting oil paintings hang within Westminster Abbey or form part of its decoration. Most have been presented to the Abbey.
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Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on Easter Day 2017
Sunday, 16th April 2017
Sermon given by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster.
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Florence
Westminster Abbey's Virtual World of Work. ideal for 16-to-25 year olds, is a step-by-step programme can be used independently or within a community group setting to prepare for joining the workforce.
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6th Eric Symes Abbot Memorial Lecture
Wednesday, 26th June 1991
Delivered by Timothy Schroder at Keble College Oxford, King's College London, and Lincoln Theological College in May and June 1991.
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Service to commemorate the life of Florence Nightingale
Monday, 12th May 2025
A Service to commemorate the life of Florence Nightingale will be held will be held in Westminster Abbey on Monday 12th May 2025.
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Florence Nightingale & Nurses' chapel
Nurse
The Nurses' Memorial Chapel, in the upper Islip chantry chapel, was re-dedicated to Florence Nightingale, on the centenary of her death.
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A podcast for the Fifth Sunday of Easter
Sunday, 10th May 2020
A podcast for the Fifth Sunday of Easter is published today as the Abbey continues to offer virtual worship for all.
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Podcast
Westminster Abbey's podcast is a mix of sermons, services and reflections, plus lectures on issues of faith, ethics and policy from the Westminster Abbey Institute.
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Prime Minister attends Abbey Nightingale service
The Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Boris Johnson MP, attended a service to commemorate the life of Florence Nightingale at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday 12th May 2021.
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Fraternité organ recital: French-inspired music by women composers
Sunday, 10th March 2024
Westminster Abbey Organ Scholar Carolyn Craig performs Florence Price’s dramatic First Sonata for Organ, inspired by Alexandre Guilmant, and music of 20th-century French woman composers.
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A podcast for Ash Wednesday
Wednesday, 17th February 2021
Today’s episode of Abbeycast, A podcast for Ash Wednesday, was recorded this week in the Florence Nightingale Chapel in Westminster Abbey.
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Health Heroes - Rainbows and Remedies
Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking and Charles Darwin are just some of the names in Scientists' Corner at Westminster Abbey. These scientists buried and remembered here made incredible contributions to our understanding of the world around us. Put your thinking cap on as we explore the natural world and beyond.
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M is for Medicine
Discover over 1,000 years of faith and history with our brand-new A to Z of Westminster Abbey. Perfect for primary-aged children, and their accompanying adults, these independent and team activities are designed to spark creativity, ignite imaginations and keep young brains ticking, with little or no materials required. Letter-by-letter, uncover the many places, themes and beliefs that can be found within this national place of worship. What are you waiting for?
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Victoria joins Chapter Office media team
Monday, 24th September 2007
Victoria Ribbans has joined the Press Office as part-time press and communications officer.
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Ernest Bevin
Statesman
The ashes of trade unionist Ernest Bevin were buried in the north aisle of the nave in 1951. The address was given by Clement Attlee.
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Paul Dirac
Scientist, Mathematician and Physicist
Probably the greatest English physicist since Newton, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was born on 8th August 1902 in Bristol. He was awarded the Nobel Prize.
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Frederick W. Maitland
Historian
A memorial stone for historian F.W. Maitland was unveiled in the south transept on 4th January 2001. The stone was cut by Richard Kindersley.
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Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Writer and Poet
The poet Robert Browning is buried in Poets' Corner. His wife, poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, is buried in Florence, but is memorialised in Westminster Abbey.
