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• New Minor Canon appointed

  Tuesday, 5th August 2008

  The Reverend Michael Macey has been appointed Minor Canon of Westminster, to succeed the Reverend Deiniol Morgan, who leaves the Abbey on 14th October having accepted a full-time commission in the Royal Army Chaplains’ Department.

  Reverend Michael Macey

• Rave reviews for Abbey choir

  Friday, 26th October 2007

  The Abbey choir’s tour Down Under has brought rave reviews from the Australian press for its “flawless” and “brilliant” performances.

  Australia tour The Choir of Westminster Abbey

• Dr Rowan Williams Leads Celebrations for the Bicentenary of the National Society

  Friday, 14th October 2011

  The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr Rowan Williams paid tribute to the work of the National Society at a Service of Thanksgiving to celebrate the Bicentenary of the National Society on Friday 14th October at 12 noon.

  Special Service National Society Archbishop of Canterbury

• Duke of Buccleuch appointed as High Steward

  Friday, 17th June 2016

  The Dean and Chapter is delighted to announce the appointment of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry as High Steward of Westminster Abbey. He will take up the appointment in October 2016 when Lord Luce retires after five years' service in the role on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

  Duke of Buccleuch High Steward

• Westminster Abbey celebrates poets and poetry in Voice and Verse events season this autumn

  Wednesday, 4th September 2024

  This autumn the Abbey will host a series of special events celebrating our much-loved literary figures, alongside those of new and emerging poets.

• Westminster Abbey Marks Auschwitz Anniversary

  Monday, 2nd February 2015

  A Service of Solemn Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz was held at Westminster Abbey on Sunday 1st February 2015.

  Auschwitz Anniversary

• King and Queen of Jordan visit Westminster Abbey

  Friday, 1st March 2019

  The King and Queen of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan visited Westminster Abbey on 1st March as part of a Governmental visit to the UK.

  Governmental Visit

• Reimerd Watkins

  Reimerd Watkins, his wife and three children were buried in the west cloister of Westminster Abbey. None have markers.

• Thomas Crawfurd

  Thomas Crawfurd (or Crawford) was buried in the north quire aisle of Westminster Abbey on 13th November 1724 but he has no readable gravestone.

• New exhibition on Notre Dame de Paris opens

  Wednesday, 7th February 2024

  The world touring immersive exhibition Notre Dame de Paris, The Augmented Exhibition opens today at the Abbey until 1st June 2024.

  Chapter House

• Prime Minister of Japan visits Abbey

  Thursday, 1st May 2014

  The Prime Minister of Japan, Mr Shinzo Abe, visited Westminster Abbey and laid a wreath at the Grave of the Unknown Warrior on Thursday 1st May 2014.

  State Visit

• Westminster Abbey holds annual Civic Service

  Monday, 2nd July 2018

  Matins, attended by the Lord Mayor of Westminster, Councillor Lindsey Hall, and Councillors of Westminster, was held at Westminster Abbey on Sunday 1st July.

  Civic Service

• Dylan Thomas

  Poet

  A memorial stone to Welsh poet Dylan Thomas was unveiled on 1st March 1982. It lies between memorials to Lord Byron and George Eliot.

• Lady Elizabeth Rich

  Lady Elizabeth Rich was buried in the north transept of Westminster Abbey on 20th October 1773 aged 81 but she has no monument or gravestone.

• Frances Louisa Parnell

  On the wall of the west cloister is a modern memorial, designed by J. Peter Foster in slate and white marble, to Frances Louisa Parnell.

• Elizabeth, Lady Latimer

  Elizabeth, wife of Edward Osborne, Viscount Latimer, was buried on 5th May 1680 together with her daughter Lady Grace. But the location is unknown.

• Lady Mary Biddulph

  Lady Mary Biddulph was buried in the north aisle on 15th September 1689 "near Sir Edward Spragge". It is thought this was the north ambulatory.

• Edmund and Frances Meyrick

  On the wall of the north cloister of Westminster Abbey is a small white marble memorial to Frances (Smith) wife of Captain Edmund Meyrick.

• Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland

  Sailor

  Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland and Strathern and Earl of Dublin was buried in the Hanoverian vault below the central aisle of Henry VII's chapel.

• Ernest Rutherford

  Scientist and Physicist

  The ashes of the physicist Ernest, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson were interred in the nave, near to the graves of Newton and Lord Kelvin.