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• Sermon Given at Matins on the Second Sunday before Lent 2017

  Sunday, 19th February 2017

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

• Sermon preached at the Ninth Sunday after Trinity 2024

  Sunday, 28th July 2024

  For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand upon the earth.

• Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the feast of Corpus Christi 2021

  Thursday, 3rd June 2021

  Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the feast of Corpus Christi 2021: Today is a feast of food, and it is a feast of the body. Jesus said, “Whoever eats me.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the feast of Christ the King 2019

  Sunday, 24th November 2019

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the feast of Christ the King 2019: The ambiguity of a king who serves. Westminster Abbey is not exactly short of imagery surrounding the subject of.

• Sermon Given at Matins on the First Sunday of Lent 2016

  Sunday, 14th February 2016

  Sermon given by The Venerable Andrew Tremlett, Canon in Residence.

• Sermon at the Liturgy on Easter Day 2018

  Sunday, 1st April 2018

  Sermon at the Liturgy on Easter Day 2018: God raised Jesus of Nazareth from the dead and because of that, nothing in this world can ever be the last word for us..

• Richard II portrait to go on loan to British Museum in 2012

  Wednesday, 7th September 2011

  Westminster Abbey’s portrait of Richard II is back in place at the west end of the nave after a conservation assessment carried out by Marie-Louise Sauerberg of Cambridge University’s Hamilton Kerr Institute and funded by the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Art Conservation Programme.

  Richard II

• Richard Briers to narrate Crucifixus pro Nobis

  Tuesday, 11th March 2008

  The distinguished actor Richard Briers will be the narrator at Crucifixus Pro Nobis, the Abbey’s meditation in words and music on the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ on Tuesday 11th March at 7.00pm.

  Richard Briers Passion

• Thomas, Margaret and Richard Blagrave

  Musician

  Thomas Blagrave, musician and singer, was buried in the north cloister but he has no monument. His wife Margaret was buried next to him.

• Richard Kane

  Soldier

  In the west aisle of the north transept is a memorial to military commander Richard Kane. It consists of a monument in marble.

• Richard James

  Writer, Poet and Priest/Minister

  The Reverend Richard James, antiquary, historian, linguist and poet, was buried in St Margaret's Church Westminster on 8th December 1638 but he has no marker or memorial.

• The Last Supper

  A reflection for Holy Week by the Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle, Dean of Westminster

• Sir Richard Coxe

  On the wall of the south transept is a memorial to Sir Richard Coxe. The coat of arms above the tablet shows three bars.

• Thomas Bilson

  Priest/Minister and Writer

  Thomas Bilson, bishop of Winchester, is buried in the south ambulatory. The plate over his grave has been moved against the wall for better preservation.

• Richard III

  Richard III was crowned in the Abbey on 6th July 1483. Almost the entire peerage of England was present at what was a magnificent spectacle.

• Richard Cobden

  Statesman

  Cobden, statesman and champion of free trade, has a memorial in the west aisle of the north transept. Dickens signed the petition for erecting it.

• Richard Hakluyt

  Writer, Scientist and Priest/Minister

  Richard Hakluyt, called 'the father of modern geographers', was buried in November 1616, but the place of his burial was not noted in the register.

• Richard Elford

  Musician

  Richard Elford, tenor singer and composer, was buried in the west cloister of Westminster Abbey. He seems never to have had an inscribed gravestone.

• Richard Trevithick

  Engineer

  A stained glass window to Richard Trevithick, Cornish inventor and engineer known as the 'father of the locomotive engine', can be seen in the nave of Westminster Abbey.

• Richard Dimbleby

  Broadcaster

  Richard Dimbleby, radio and television broadcaster, has a memorial in the south choir aisle. In the stone wall slab is inserted a bronze portrait relief.