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• Voice and Verse Song Recital: Remembrance

  Thursday, 14th November 2024

  Enjoy the beautiful sound world of the Abbey and its artists, as the Abbey’s Lay Vicars perform a recital of English Song featuring texts by poets buried or memorialised in Poets’ Corner.

  Events Music Voice and Verse

• Virtual classrooms

  Our team of experienced Learning Officers can join you online in your classroom to bring the Abbey to life even if you cannot visit. We offer a range of formats: interactive sessions, costumed characters (and guided virtual tours, tailored to your needs, interests and the age of your class.

• Stephen Hawking memorial service set for June

  Wednesday, 28th March 2018

  The Service of Thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey for the Life of Professor Stephen Hawking, during which his ashes will be interred near the grave of Sir Isaac Newton, will be held on Friday 15th June.

  Stephen Hawking Memorial dedication

• Guided tours

  Visiting the Abbey with your secondary class is guaranteed to be a memorable experience as you explore the building to discover over a thousand years of faith and history. Our experienced guides link the Abbey to your course of study, offering both highlights tours or something more specific bringing the Abbey to life. Discover information about guided tours, costs and school bursary visits to Westminster Abbey.

• Westminster Abbey to honour Sir Roger Bannister

  Thursday, 22nd July 2021

  Westminster Abbey is to dedicate a memorial to Sir Roger Bannister, the first man to run a mile in under four minutes and who later.

• Writers and thinkers

  After Geoffrey Chaucer was buried here, Poets’ Corner became the place where many other creative people were buried and remembered. This space in the Abbey’s South Transept remembers people who have explored the world in all sorts of creative ways. Stretch your creative muscles with these videos.

• Poet Laureates

  Curator Dr Susan Jenkins shares more about the lives and poetry of nine Poet Laureates who are buried or memorialised in Poets' Corner.

• A Tudor dynasty

  Find out about the many elaborate royal funerals have taken place in Westminster Abbey prior to burial here.

• Voice and Verse Family Day: Get Creative!

  Friday, 1st November 2024

  Release your imagination this half term. Take inspiration from famous poets, writers and creatives buried and remembered in Westminster Abbey to boost your family creativity.

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• Robert Hooke

  Scientist and Writer

  A memorial for Robert Hooke, one of the most brilliant and versatile of English scientists, was unveiled on 3rd March 2005.

• James Clerk Maxwell

  Scientist, Mathematician and Physicist

  In the nave is a memorial stone for James Clerk Maxwell, eminent physicist and mathematician. It is to the north of the grave of Newton.

• James Rumsey

  Scientist and Engineer

  In St Margaret's Church is a tablet in memory of James Rumsey, West Virginia, inventor, who was buried in the churchyard on 24th December 1792.

• Pioneer of Industrial Revolution Honoured at Abbey

  Friday, 17th October 2014

  A memorial to the 18th century Birmingham industrialist, Matthew Boulton FRS was dedicated in the Chapel of St Paul, Westminster Abbey, on Friday 17th October 2014.

  Special Service Matthew Boulton

• Westminster Abbey Honour for Poet Philip Larkin

  Wednesday, 17th June 2015

  Westminster Abbey is to honour the poet Philip Larkin with a memorial stone to be dedicated next year.

  Philip Larkin Poets' Corner

• See Abbey in unprecedented detail with online tour

  Thursday, 7th July 2016

  It is one of the world's great churches, with a history stretching back over a thousand years. Now, for the first time, visitors from around the world can take a virtual tour inside Westminster Abbey using Google Street View.

  virtual tour

• About the Abbey

  An architectural masterpiece of the 13th to 16th centuries, Westminster Abbey has become a treasure house of artefacts. This is also the coronation church where some of the most significant people in Britain's history are buried or commemorated.

• Voice and Verse Song Recital: Journeying

  Thursday, 7th November 2024

  Enjoy the beautiful sound world of the Abbey and its artists, as the Abbey’s Lay Vicars perform a recital of English Song featuring texts by poets buried or memorialised in Poets’ Corner.

• Sir Ninian Comper

  Architect

  The ashes of architect and stained glass designer Sir John Ninian Comper are buried in the north aisle of the nave of Westminster Abbey.

• Sir Isaac Newton

  Scientist, Mathematician and Astronomer

  Scientist, mathematician and astronomer Sir Isaac Newton was buried in Westminster Abbey on 28th March 1727. His monument, by J.M. Rysbrack and W. Kent, is in the nave.

• Thomas Tompion

  Scientist

  Thomas Tompion, called the finest English clockmaker of all time, is buried in the centre part of the nave. The inscription on has been re-cut.