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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.
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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.
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Memorial to Chadwick brothers dedicated
Friday, 2nd February 2018
A memorial to two brothers, both priests and distinguished academics, Owen Chadwick OM KBE and Henry Chadwick KBE, was dedicated in the South Quire Aisle of Westminster Abbey on Thursday 1st February 2018.
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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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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.
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A Service to Dedicate a Memorial to the Founders of the Royal Ballet
Tuesday, 17th November 2009
A Service to Dedicate a Memorial to the Founders of the Royal Ballet was held at Westminster Abbey at 12 noon on Tuesday 17th November 2009.
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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.
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The Victoria Cross and George Cross Memorial
Wednesday, 7th May 2003
The Victoria Cross and George Cross Memorial in Westminster Abbey unveiled and dedicated at a Service on 14th May 2003.
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Long Range Desert Group memorial dedicated
Monday, 9th December 2013
A memorial to the Long Range Desert Group was dedicated in the west cloister of Westminster Abbey on Monday 9th December 2013.
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Dr James Hawkey appointed New Canon Theologian
Wednesday, 13th June 2018
Reverend Dr James Hawkey has been appointed to the Canonry of Westminster to be made vacant through the retirement of the Reverend Professor Vernon White.
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Lord Bragg Delivers Second King James Bible Lecture
Thursday, 13th October 2011
Lord Bragg, the author and broadcaster, gave the second lecture in the Abbey’s autumn series of lectures marking the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible in 1611.
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Lord Judge Delivers first King James Bible Lecture
Thursday, 6th October 2011
Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, delivered the first of Westminster Abbey’s autumn series of King James Bible lectures on Wednesday 5th October to a packed Nave.
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Clare College appoints Reverend Dr James Hawkey as its new Dean
Friday, 14th November 2014
Clare College, Cambridge, has announced that the Reverend Dr James Hawkey will be its next Dean and Director of Studies in Theology, to succeed the Reverend Dr Gregory Seach who is leaving to take up the post of Warden of Wollaston College in Western Australia.
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HRH The Princess Royal to dedicate Armed Forces Memorial
Friday, 17th October 2008
HRH The Princess Royal will dedicate a memorial in the Abbey’s South Cloister later this month to commemorate all those in the British armed forces who have died in conflicts throughout the world since the Second World War.
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Memorial dedicated to Octavia Hill co-founder of the National Trust
Monday, 22nd October 2012
A Service to dedicate a Memorial to Octavia Hill (1838-1912) and to give thanks for the work of the National Trust was held at Westminster Abbey today at 12 noon in the centenary year of the death of Octavia Hill, the leading social reformer and co-founder of the National Trust.
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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.
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HM The Queen attends King James Bible Service
Wednesday, 16th November 2011
Her Majesty The Queen accompanied by His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh and His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales attended a service of celebration, in association with the King James Bible Trust, to mark the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday 16th November at 12 noon.
Royal Visit Special Service HM The Queen HRH The Duke of Edinburgh HRH The Prince of Wales
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Charles I
Charles I was the second son of James I and was born on 19th November 1600. He was crowned in Westminster Abbey in February 1626.
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Charles Dickens
Writer and Novelist
A small stone with a simple inscription marks the grave of Charles Dickens, famous English novelist, in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
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James Hawkey installed as Canon Theologian
Monday, 21st January 2019
The Reverend Dr James Hawkey was installed as a Canon of Westminster during Evensong at Westminster Abbey on Saturday 19th January 2019.
