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• Annual Judges Service Marks Start of Legal Year

  Thursday, 1st October 2015

  The annual Judges Service took place at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 1st October 2015.

  Special Service Judges Service

• Judges Service Marks the Start of the Legal Year

  Monday, 2nd October 2017

  The annual Judges Service took place at Westminster Abbey on Monday 2nd October 2017.

  Choir

• Westminster Abbey Marks 500th Anniversary of the Reformation

  Tuesday, 31st October 2017

  A service to mark the 500th anniversary of the 95 Theses and the start of the Reformation was held at Westminster Abbey at Noon on Tuesday 31st October 2017.

• Annual Judges Service Marks Start of Legal Year

  Wednesday, 1st October 2014

  The annual Judges Service took place at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday 1st October 2014.

• London Mayors attend Evensong

  Monday, 17th October 2011

  Mayors of the London boroughs attended a service of Evensong at Westminster Abbey on Sunday 16th October 2011 to celebrate the Feast of the Dedication of the Abbey.

  London Mayors Evensong

• Judges Service

  Wednesday, 1st October 2008

  The annual Judges Service took place at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday 1st October 2008.

• Annual Judges Service held at Abbey

  Monday, 3rd October 2016

  The annual Judges Service took place at Westminster Abbey on Monday 3rd October 2016.

• King and Queen of the Netherlands visit Abbey

  Tuesday, 23rd October 2018

  The King and Queen of the Netherlands visited Westminster Abbey on 23rd October as part of Their Majesties’ State Visit to Her Majesty The Queen.

  State Visit

• A national service to celebrate 12 Step Recovery

  Tuesday, 25th October 2022

  A National Service to celebrate 12 Step Recovery was held in St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey, on Tuesday 25th October.

• Edwardtide Pilgrimage 2024

  Saturday, 19th October 2024

  Join us for the National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor on Saturday 19th October 2024

  Edwardtide Edward the Confessor

• John

  John was crowned in Westminster Abbey on 27th May 1199. It seems he displayed "unseemly levity" during the ceremony and left before receiving the Sacrament.

• John Broughton

  Soldier

  John Broughton, champion boxer and later Yeoman of the Guard, was buried in the west cloister of Westminster Abbey in 1789.

• Henry Temple, Viscount Palmerston

  Statesman

  Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister, is buried with his wife in the north transept. There is an over life-size statue of him nearby.

• John and Edward Tufnell

  John Tufnell and his son Edward were both master masons at Westminster Abbey and are buried in the south cloister.

• John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll

  Soldier

  John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll and 1st Duke of Greenwich, orator and soldier, was buried in Henry VII's chapel but his large monument is in the south transept.

• Henry and John Lawes

  Musician and Composer

  Henry Lawes, the distinguished musician and songwriter, was buried somewhere in the cloisters. His brother John, a lay vicar of the Abbey, was buried previously.

• Sir Henry (Brodribb) Irving

  Actor

  The ashes of Sir Henry Irving, actor, lie in Poets' Corner. John Henry Brodribb (1838-1905) assumed the surname of Irving by royal licence in 1889.

• William and Mary Carnegie

  Priest/Minister

  The ashes of William Hartley Carnegie, Sub-Dean of Westminster, and his second wife Mary Endicott Carnegie are buried at the west end of the nave.

• Edmund Kyrton

  Abbot

  Edmund Kyrton or Kirton was Abbot of Westminster from 1440-1462. He is buried beneath a now lost brass in St Andrew's chapel Westminster Abbey.

• James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith

  Soldier

  James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith and several members of his family are buried in the Ormond vault at the eastern end of Henry VII's chapel.