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  • 21st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 11th May 2006

    Delivered by The Very Reverend Vivienne Faull, Dean of Leicester at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 11th May 2006 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • Responsibility for the care of the Chapter House passed to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster

    Saturday, 15th May 2004

    The Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend Dr Wesley Carr and the Chief Executive of English Heritage, Dr Simon Thurley, celebrated an important agreement for the ancient Chapter House and Pyx Chamber on 10th May 2004.

    Chapter House Pyx Chamber

  • Feast of the Epiphany: Gifts of the Magi

    Sunday, 4th January 2026

    The Reverend Dr James Hawkey explores the gifts the Magi brought to Jesus, and asks what we might lay at Christ's feet in this new year.

  • Sermon preached at Eucharist with Ordination and Consecration 2023

    Friday, 29th September 2023

    Sermon preached at the Eucharist with Ordination and Consecration 2023

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday after Trinity 2021

    Sunday, 4th July 2021

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday after Trinity 2021: St Paul himself wrote that in Christ there is no longer Jew or Gentile, male or female, bond or.

  • Benedictine monastery

    The monks at Westminster Abbey wore the habit of the Order of St Benedict, who established the Benedictine rules for the monks in about 540AD.

    Christianity

  • Sermon Given at the Evening Service on the Seventh Sunday after Trinity 2017

    Sunday, 30th July 2017

    Sermon given by The Reverend Tony Kyriakides Priest Vicar.

  • Abbey in Wartime

    On the outbreak of the second world war in 1939 many of the Abbey's treasures were evacuated for safety to country houses, such as Mentmore.

    Architecture

  • Sermon at a Service of Morning Prayer in Thanksgiving for the Life of HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    Sunday, 11th April 2021

    A sermon remembering the life and work of HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Eve of the Translation of St Edward the Confessor 2018

    Friday, 12th October 2018

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Eve of the Translation of St Edward the Confessor 2018: Our response to tough times should not be to turn away from God. Our focus.

  • Cosmati Pavement

    The Cosmati Pavement was laid down in 1268 by order of Henry III who had started re-building the Abbey in the new Gothic style.

    Art

  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Lent 2015

    Sunday, 8th March 2015

    Sermon given by The Reverend Mark Birch, Minor Canon and Chaplain.

  • Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Easter 2023

    Sunday, 16th April 2023

    Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday of Easter 2023: Peace be with you. When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week. That is.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday of Epiphany 2018

    Sunday, 28th January 2018

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday of Epiphany 2018: Jesus has a very busy day.

  • Sermon preached at Evensong on the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 2024

    Sunday, 8th September 2024

    British holy sites series: II Walsingham

  • Address at the dedication of a memorial to Owen and Henry Chadwick

    Thursday, 1st February 2018

    Address given by Professor Eamon Duffy, Professor of the History of Christianity, University of Cambridge

  • The Mystery of the Transfiguration: Seven Meditations

    These Meditations were first published in 1979, although they were originally delivered in the late 1940s.

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on All Saints' Day 2019

    Friday, 1st November 2019

    This beautiful feast of All the Saints reminds us of the triumph our Lord Jesus Christ won over death.

    All Saints' Day

  • Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday after Trinity

    Sunday, 21st July 2019

    Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday after Trinity: If we only have the courage to stop and look and listen... It may be a result of encroaching deafness, but.

  • History of Westminster Abbey

    An architectural masterpiece of the 13th to 16th centuries, Westminster Abbey houses tombs and memorials to kings and queens and the famous and the great.

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