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• 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.

  ...included the 13th century Retable (altarpiece), tapestries, gilt bronze and oak tomb effigies, manuscripts, misericords, and statues and gates from the Lady

  Architecture

• 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.

  ...figures themselves seem oddly bloodless and pale, more like painted wood statues than living human beings; their actual physical balance, moreover, is so poised...

• The Charles Gore Lecture 2005 No. 1

  Tuesday, 15th February 2005

  Before I moved to Westminster Abbey, I used to live near an Immigration Detention Centre. Three years ago, just before Christmas, I heard there was no priest working at the Chaplaincy.

  Conclusion Over the West door of Westminster Abbey are the statues of ten 'twentieth century martyrs' from all round the world.

• Sermon given at Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday after Trinity, 2020

  Sunday, 5th July 2020

  We closed the Abbey doors on 20th March; a little over a hundred days ago. Then, this place of national memorial and celebration, this church that welcomes over a million visitors a year, went quiet.

  This is by the way one of the reasons we are in such a contested debate about #blacklivesmatter and about statues and our history.

• 28th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 2nd May 2013

  Dame Averil Cameron gives the 28th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture on Constantine's Vision and the Church Today - From the Battle of the Milvian Bridge (AD 312) to the twenty-first century.

  ...was more interested in the palace and the hippodrome, adorned with classical statues, than in building churches; it took many decades before it could be...

• 17th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 2nd May 2002

  Delivered by The Reverend Mark Oakley, St Paul's Covent Garden at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 2nd May 2002 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  In 63BC the Romans stormed the Jerusalem Temple and were, we are told, astonished to find the Holy of Holies empty, with no statues and no object of worship.

• Sermon series: Noble Army of Martyrs

  Sunday, 10th September 2023

  Noble Army of Martyrs: Above the Abbey’s Great West Door stand ten statues to 20th-century Christian martyrs. This autumn, to mark the 25th anniversary of their installation, a sermon series.

  ...Eucharist, Wednesday 1 November, 5.00pm  About the Modern Martyrs  The ten martyrs whose statues stand above the Abbey’s Great West Door are drawn from every...

  Evensong

• A Reflection on history

  Friday, 12th June 2020

  I have been watching the film of Edward Colston’s statue emerging from Bristol’s Floating Harbour. The statue stood on the city centre Watershed, perhaps five hundred metres from Bristol Cathedral.

  There has been a lot of talk about history and statues and Edward Colston.

  Friday Reflection COVID-19

• Americans at the Abbey

  American academic Greg Garrett marks the 250th anniversary of America’s birth by considering how the relationship between Britain and America is borne out in the Abbey’s monuments, statues and graves.

• Art and architecture

  Westminster Abbey was founded in the year 960 AD. Since then there have been three churches on the same site. The current church is 750 years old and full of beautiful statues and windows. Join us to find out about and recreate some of the wonders you would encounter inside.

• A podcast for Palm Sunday

  Sunday, 5th April 2020

  A new podcast is released today for Palm Sunday, the day of Jesus's triumphal entry into Jerusalem and the beginning of Holy Week.

  Palm Sunday Holy Week and Easter

• Modern Christian martyr maquette

  Visit the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries to see the modern Christian martyr maquette, and many more objects, in real life. High above the Abbey floor, come face to face with the Abbey’s greatest treasures covering over 1,000 years of faith and history. Along with worship, examine objects that teach us about the building of Westminster Abbey, its role in national memory and its relationship with royalty.

  This maquette is one of the ten modern statues of Christian martyrs from the twentieth century that are above the Abbey’s Great West Door.

• I is for Individuals

  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?

  Westminster Abbey is filled with the graves, statues and memorials of over 4,000 people so that we can remember these people as a nation.

• Arnold Quellin

  Artist and Architect

  Some panels carved by Arnold Quellin as part of an altarpiece made by Grinling Gibbons are on display in the Jubilee Galleries. Four statues also exist but are not on show.

  In College Garden, in the precincts of Westminster Abbey, were displayed until recently four large statues carved by Arnold Quellin.

• Martyrs of the Reformation

  In October 1977 Lady Fisher of Lambeth unveiled a memorial stone to Martyrs of the Reformation. This is to the west of Elizabeth I’s tomb.

  Over the west door of the Abbey the statues of 10 modern martyrs were unveiled in 1998.

• Statesmen, musicians, scientists

  When Charles Dickens died at his home in Kent on 9th June 1870, it was presumed that he would be buried in Rochester Cathedral or in one of the nearby parish churches at Cobham or Shorne. This, after all, was what the author of some of the greatest novels in the English language had wanted.

  ...especially associated with the commemoration of politicians, the series of 19th-century statues along the eastern side – including those of Benjamin Disraeli...

• Early life and career

  Find out about sculptor Thomas Brock's contribution to Westminster Abbey.

  Brock’s commemorative statues and busts demonstrate his skill as a portraitist.

• Centenary of the Birth of Blessed Oscar Romero

  Saturday, 23rd September 2017

  HE Mrs Elisabeth Hayek Weinmann, Ambassador of El Salvador, attended Evensong commemorating the centenary of the birth of Blessed Oscar Romero at Westminster Abbey on Saturday 23rd September.

  He is one of the 20th Century Martyrs whose statues were placed in 1998 above the Great West Door of the Abbey.

  Oscar Romero

• John Philip Kemble

  Actor

  A life sized (about six feet) white marble statue of actor John Philip Kemble stands in the chapel of St Andrew, Westminster Abbey.

  ...Kemble's permission and she replied; My uncle and aunt had no business in Westminster Abbey and the statues are in the Dean's hands to do whatever he likes with

• Henry Hugh Armstead

  Artist

  Henry Hugh Armstead was one of the sculptors who worked on the new altar screen in Westminster Abbey designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott from 1867.

  contributions were the four large statues of Moses, David, St Peter and St Paul and eight smaller figures flanking them and the scenes from the life of Christ...