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• The Coronation Chair

  The Coronation Chair is one of the most famous pieces of furniture in the world. It has been the centrepiece of coronations for 700 years.

  Royalty Coronations

• Oil paintings

  Several interesting oil paintings hang within Westminster Abbey or form part of its decoration. Most have been presented to the Abbey.

  Art

• Address given at A Service to mark the start of the 2020 legal year

  Thursday, 1st October 2020

  Address given at A Service to Mark the Start of the 2020 Legal Year

• 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.

  Architecture Christianity

• Wall paintings

  Our most important wall paintings are from the late 13th century, and include the figures of St Faith, Christ with St Thomas, and St Christopher.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Feast of the Translation of St Edward the Confessor 2019

  Sunday, 13th October 2019

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on the Feast of the Translation of St Edward the Confessor 2019: Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink? Jesus said.

  Edwardtide

• 30th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 21st May 2015

  The Reverend Lucy Winkett asks what can the Church say about the Christian requirement for mercy as a public value? Is the quest for purity as damaging as it is noble? Do our public conversations confuse sincerity with truth? And is there any such thing as innocence?

• 2nd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 21st May 1987

  Delivered by The Rt Revd Simeon Nkoane CR, Assistant Bishop of Johannesburg at King's College London.

• One People Oration 2016

  Monday, 14th November 2016

  Speaker: Lord Evans of Weardale, former Head of MI5; Chair: The Very Reverend Dr John Hall

• 19th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 27th May 2004

  Delivered by Father Timothy Radcliffe OP at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 27th May 2004 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

• 16th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 10th May 2001

  Delivered by Professor Stephen Clark, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 10th May 2001 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

• 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.

• The Charles Gore Lecture 2014

  Tuesday, 4th March 2014

  Speaker: The Right Reverend Professor NT Wright, University of St Andrews; Chair: Canon Professor Vernon White

• The Charles Gore Lecture 2000

  Tuesday, 14th November 2000

  My title reflects a famous conversation between Charles Gore and William Temple. Temple himself describes it like this: Bishop Gore once said to me that he paid visits to St. John as to a fascinating foreign country, but he came home to St. Paul.

• 23rd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 8th May 2008

  Delivered by The Reverend Canon Dr Jane Shaw, Dean of Divinity, Chaplain and Fellow, New College Oxford and Canon Theologian, Salisbury Cathedral at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 8th May 2008.

• The Reverend Andrew Tremlett appointed Canon of Westminster

  Thursday, 1st July 2010

  It is announced today from 10 Downing Street that Her Majesty The Queen has approved the appointment of The Reverend Andrew Tremlett, Canon of Bristol Cathedral, as a Canon of Westminster in succession to The Reverend Canon Robert Wright, who will be leaving the Abbey in September.

  Reverend Andrew Tremlett Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin

• Where does wise leadership come from?

  In our parliamentary democracy, leaders are not only elected by the people, they are themselves drawn from the people.

• Sir Robert Arundell Hudson

  Politician

  The ashes of Sir Robert Arundell Hudson are buried in the west cloister. He was a son of Robert Hudson and his wife Jessie.

• Spirit of Windrush celebrated at Westminster Abbey

  The Queen was represented by the Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London at a Service of Thanksgiving to mark the 70th anniversary of the landing of the Windrush today.

• 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.