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• Sermon preached at the Festival Eucharist on the National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor 2024

  Saturday, 19th October 2024

  What should be the pilgrim’s imprint upon the earth?

• Sermon given at the Festival Eucharist in the National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor

  Saturday, 16th October 2021

  Sermon given at the Festival Eucharist in the National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor: When in 2007 we came to refurbish the shrine of Hereford’s own saint, Thomas.

• 26th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 26th May 2011

  Delivered by Richard Chartres KCVO, Bishop of London at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 26th May 2011 and at Keble College, Oxford on Friday 27th May 2011.

• Samuel and Catherine Strutt

  Samuel Strutt, for many years assistant clerk of the House of Lords, was buried in the east cloister with his first wife Catherine.

• 34th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 9th May 2019

  Sir James MacMillan argues that the search for the sacred did not end with modernity in music and that it has grown and become complex.

  Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

• Samuel and Henrietta Barnett

  Priest/Minister and Philanthropist

  In the south choir aisle is a marble tablet to the memory of Samuel Barnett, Canon of Westminster, and his wife Dame Henrietta Barnett.

• The Charles Gore Lecture 2008

  Tuesday, 29th April 2008

  I was interested to hear recently from a distinguished professor of liturgics in the United States that he considers Charles Gore's book, The Body of Christ, to be a classical and enduring exposition of the Eucharist and assigns it to be read by his students.

• The Charles Gore Lecture 2005 No. 2

  Wednesday, 28th September 2005

  Charles Gore died in 1932, leaving a daunting legacy for anyone who would presume to lecture in his name.

• One People Oration 2019

  Monday, 21st October 2019

  There are many churches and cathedrals in the world, some of which are more beautiful, more ancient, more glorious than Westminster Abbey.

  One People Oration

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Poet

  In Poets' Corner is a bust in memory of poet and critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It was presented to the Abbey by Dr Mercer.

• Samuel Barton and Jane Wowen

  Priest/Minister

  On a pillar in the south transept is a memorial to Dr Samuel Barton. His daughter Jane and her husband John Wowen are also buried here.

• Samuel Flood Jones

  Priest/Minister

  Samuel Flood Jones was buried in the south cloister. He was an Abbey Minor Canon from 1859 to his death and Precentor from 1869.

• 32nd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 11th May 2017

  Salley Vickers addresses the crucial role of the arts in giving shape and form to abiding intangible realities, suggesting the vital importance of nurturing the imagination through the arts in an increasingly secular society.

• 27th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 10th May 2012

  The well-rehearsed arguments about the establishment of the Church of England require revisiting at a time when the nature of sovereignty and location of power have substantially shifted.

• One People Oration 2006

  Wednesday, 22nd February 2006

  Speaker: Mr Tony Colman (former Chair, UK Parliament UN Group)

• Samuel and William Bradford

  Dean and Priest/Minister

  Bishop Samuel Bradford was buried in the north transept of Westminster Abbey on 22nd May 1731. He was Dean of Westminster and Bishop of Rochester.

• John, Charles & Samuel Wesley

  Priest/Minister

  On 30th March 1876 the Dean of Westminster, Arthur Stanley, unveiled a white marble memorial to Methodists John and Charles Wesley.

• 23rd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 8th May 2008

  Delivered by The Reverend Canon Dr Jane Shaw, Dean of Divinity, Chaplain and Fellow, New College Oxford and Canon Theologian, Salisbury Cathedral at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 8th May 2008.

• Samuel Pepys

  Entry to St Margaret’s is free. Find out more about the church with our free plan and guide or ask about the free guided tour.

• 25. Charles II and the new regalia

  Ahead of the Coronation of Their Majesties The King and The Queen Consort on 6 May, we’ll be sharing stories from each of the 38 Coronation services held here since 1066.