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Coastal Command member visits Abbey memorial
Saturday, 11th August 2007
Peter Ilbery was just 20 when he joined 455 Squadron of the RAF’s Coastal Command in 1945. Flying Hampdens and later Beaufighters, he and his Australian colleagues embarked on nightly operations against German U-boats during World War Two.
Now 83, and visiting relatives in the UK from his home in Canberra, Peter made a special journey to Westminster Abbey to visit Coastal Command’s memorial in the...
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Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving for ANZAC Day announced
Monday, 21st February 2022
The annual Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving to mark ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Day will be held at Westminster Abbey.
Find out more information by visiting the ANZAC Day 2022 service page.
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Westminster Abbey is open to visitors once again
Friday, 21st May 2021
From today, Westminster Abbey will be open on selected days to visitors, following the further easing of lockdown restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Dates and times for visiting the Abbey have been confirmed until the end of June.
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The Nation's Memory
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.
...ceremonies every November, but wreaths are laid there throughout the year, especially by visiting heads of state who come to the Abbey to pay their respects to...
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Westminster Abbey celebrates Our Lady of Walsingham
Tuesday, 7th May 2019
Westminster Abbey, in collaboration with the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, held a day of celebration in honour of Our Lady of Walsingham.
Bishops and Guardians of the Holy House were robed and seated in the Sacrarium and many Priests Associate of the Holy House were robed and seated in the...
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HRH The Duchess of Cornwall opens 92nd Field of Remembrance
Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall opened the 92nd Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday 4th November 2020.
...that for the first time since the Poppy Factory first laid out a Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey in 1928 it will not be available for public visiting.
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HRH The Duchess of Cornwall honours war dead
HRH The Duchess of Cornwall opened the 93rd Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 11th November 2021.
the Field of Remembrance The Field of Remembrance will remain open until Sunday 21st November, and members of the public are invited to visit and to plant...
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Seminar: Speaking of Human Flourishing - salvation, happiness, rhetoric
Thursday, 17th October 2024
Join us for the first of this term’s online seminar talks with Nadia Marais, a Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, an ordained minister in the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa.
She is a visiting scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary and a fellow at the Centre of Theological Inquiry in Princeton.
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Creation trail: Wellbeing wander
Thursday, 20th June 2024
Discover tranquillity in the cloisters and Abbey gardens on this self-guided walk.
Please check the opening times before visiting. Creation This event is part of the Creation season.
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Creation exhibition: Communion Forest
Saturday, 3rd August 2024
An exhibition welcoming you to explore the beauty of the natural world and the ongoing efforts of the Communion Forest to preserve it.
Timings The exhibition will be open from 10.00am to 3.00pm on days when visiting is available.
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Celebrate Advent and Christmas with us
Friday, 12th November 2021
Celebrate Advent and Christmas 2021 at Westminster Abbey
us The Abbey is open throughout Advent and Christmas for private prayer and visiting from Monday to Saturday, including New Year’s Day, but excluding 23rd to...
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Aaron Hill
Writer and Poet
Aaron Hill, poet and dramatist, was buried in the west cloister of Westminster Abbey on 18th February 1750 alongside his wife Margaret.
...the Strand in London on 10th February 1685 he was educated at Westminster School and travelled abroad, visiting a distant relative Lord Paget in Constantinople.
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Isaac Dorislaus
Diplomat
Isaac Dorislaus, diplomat, was buried in the north aisle of Henry VII's chapel at Westminster Abbey on 14th June 1649 but was later exhumed.
While visiting The Hague he was stabbed by Royalists and his body returned to London to lie in state.
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First impressions
Since its foundation in 1976, The Prince’s Trust has supported over a million young people aged 11-30 through a range of courses, grants and mentoring support. The Trust’s work assists young people to improve skills, increase self-confidence and helps them to move into jobs, education, training and volunteering. David Williams, from the Trust’s Delivery Partnership and Volunteering Team, explores how partnering with Westminster Abbey helps fulfil these aims.
tours are perfectly paced to engage with the young people, with groups visiting the Coronation Chair, the Grave of the Unknown Warrior, Poets’ Corner, The Lady...
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War dead honoured at the Field of Remembrance
HRH The Duchess of Gloucester opened the 96th Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 7th November 2024.
the Field of Remembrance The Field of Remembrance will remain open until daily Sunday 17th November, and members of the public are invited to visit...
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The Parliament Choir's Coronation Jubilee Concert
Friday, 20th June 2003
The Parliament Choir's Coronation Jubilee Concert was switched from Westminster Hall to the Abbey at just 33 hours notice after two pieces of oak cladding fell 100ft from the hammer beam roof of the hall.
Seating for 1,700 people went out as soon as tourist visiting ended and by 7.30pm on Wednesday all was ready for the arrival of HRH The Prince of Wales.
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Abbey presents Pope with Missal volume
Thursday, 30th September 2010
Westminster Abbey presented Pope Benedict XVI with a magnificent bound volume of illustrations from its 14th century illuminated manuscript, the Litlyngton Missal, after the ecumenical service of evening prayer on Friday 17th September 2010.
The Abbey has commissioned a set of velvet-bound editions of A World of Worship which will be presented to visiting Heads of State.
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New Canon Theologian appointed
Monday, 20th December 2010
It is announced today (Tuesday 21st December 2010) from 10 Downing Street that Her Majesty The Queen has approved the appointment of The Reverend Vernon White as a Canon of Westminster. He will become Canon Theologian in succession to the Reverend Canon Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, who will be leaving the Abbey in January.
...take place in May 2011, after which he will also be appointed as Visiting Professor in the Department of Theology & Religious Studies at King's College
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Abbey installs new Canon Theologian
Friday, 6th May 2011
The Reverend Vernon White was installed as a Canon of Westminster at Evensong on Saturday 7th May 2011.
He is the Abbey’s new Canon Theologian and also becomes a Visiting Professor in the Department of Theology & Religious Studies at King's College London.
