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  • 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.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Fifth Sunday of Easter 2024

    Sunday, 28th April 2024

    Smoothing over the difficulties and ambiguities.

  • 29th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Friday, 25th July 2014

    The Reverend Dr Sam Wells, Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, gives the 29th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture on the topic 'Beyond Justice'.

  • 12th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 15th May 1997

    Delivered by The Rt Rev. and Rt Hon. Lord Habgood at Westminster Abbey on Thursday the 15th May 1997 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

  • The Charles Gore Lecture 2001

    Tuesday, 13th November 2001

    Every one has a worldview, whether they know it or not, just as everyone speaks prose, whether they know it or not. As someone who has spent half a lifetime working as a theoretical physicist

  • 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.

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    Monday, 1st January 2024

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  • 8th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Monday, 24th May 1993

    Delivered by Angela Tilbyat at Westminster Abbey 24th May 1993.

  • 3rd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Wednesday, 1st June 1988

    Delivered by Dame Janet Baker at King's College London on Wednesday 1st May 1988.

  • Sermon at Memorial Eucharist For Eric Symes Abbott

    Wednesday, 12th June 1985

    Delivered by The Reverend John Robson. Chaplain of Wellington College, Berkshire.

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