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• Westminster Abbey Honours PG Wodehouse

  Friday, 20th September 2019

  HRH The Duke of Kent attended the dedication of a memorial stone to PG Wodehouse at Westminster Abbey on Friday 20th September 2019.

  PG Wodehouse Poets' Corner Memorial dedication Special Service

• Westminster Abbey Honours Father of Modern Australia

  Wednesday, 9th July 2014

  His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh attended a Service to Dedicate a Memorial to Admiral Arthur Phillip RN at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday 9th July.

  HRH The Duke of Edinburgh Arthur Phillip

• St Margaret's choir war memorial

  Soldier and Airman

  Former choristers of St Margaret's church Westminster who died in the two world wars are commemorated by brass plaques in the church.

• 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.

  RAF Coastal Command

• Malaya memorial

  In the north cloister is a large Roman stone mural slab commemorating those who served Malaya. It was unveiled by The Queen Mother.

• Memorial window

  On 8th May 1945, Winston Churchill announced that the Second World War in Europe at an end. This was VE Day or Victory in Europe Day.

• President George W. Bush and First Lady visit Abbey

  Thursday, 20th November 2003

  The Dean of Westminster, The Very Reverend Dr Wesley Carr welcomed President Bush and Mrs George W Bush to Westminster Abbey today and invited him to lay a wreath on the Grave of the Unknown Warrior.

  State Visit President of the United States George W. Bush Laura Bush

• Vigil of Prayer for the Innocent Victims of the Gaza Conflict

  Saturday, 17th January 2009

  On Saturday afternoon after Evensong there was a short vigil of prayer, led by the Canon in Residence, at the Innocent Victims' Memorial for the innocent victims of the current conflict in and around Gaza.

  Innocent Victims Memorial

• Swiss President pays respects to innocent victims

  Thursday, 28th April 2022

  Swiss President pays respect to innocent victims: The President of the Swiss Confederation, His Excellency Ignazio Cassis, laid a wreath at the Innocent Victims’ Memorial during a visit to Westminster Abbey on.

  Innocent Victims' Memorial Wreathlaying

• Westminster Abbey Marks Srebrenica Anniversary

  Monday, 6th July 2015

  A Solemn Commemoration for Srebrenica Memorial Day was held at Westminster Abbey at Noon on Monday 6th July.

  Srebrenica Memorial Day

• Westminster citizens war memorial

  In St Benedict's chapel is a stained glass window in memory of those citizens of Westminster who gave their lives during the 1939-1945 war.

• Remembering Chernobyl

  Tuesday, 26th April 2005

  The Reverend Nicholas Holtam, Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, led the Chernobyl Children's Project and others in a brief wreath laying service at 12 noon on Tuesday 26th April, at the Innocent Victim's Memorial.

  Chernobyl Children's Project

• Robert Hooke memorialised at Westminster Abbey

  Wednesday, 23rd February 2005

  Robert Hooke, one of the most brilliant and versatile of seventeenth-century English scientists will be memorialised at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 3 March at 6.00pm.

  Robert Hooke

• Special evening marks 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln

  Wednesday, 8th July 2009

  Abraham Lincoln’s moral purpose and his historical significance were examined in a lecture in St Margaret’s Church on Tuesday 7th July given by Professor Richard Carwardine, Rhodes Professor of American History at St. Catherine's College, Oxford as part of an evening of special events to mark the bicentenary of Lincoln’s birth.

  Abraham Lincoln

• Charles Gore lecture: Theology for Commonwealth: God’s Dreaming, Common Worth, Planetary Communion

  Wednesday, 17th September 2025

  Join us for a lecture that offers a theology look for Commonwealth by turning our attention from Word to Dreaming, from wealth to worth, from common good to planetary communion.

  Charles Gore Memorial Lectures

• Westminster Abbey staff war memorial

  Soldier

  On the wooden panelling in St George's chapel are painted the names of Westminster Abbey staff, or former choristers, who died for their country.

• Memorial Service held for Lord Bingham

  Thursday, 26th May 2011

  A service of thanksgiving for the life and work of the Rt Hon Lord Bingham of Cornhill KG was held at the Abbey on Wednesday 25th May 2011.

  Lord Bingham

• 'With courage to endure'

  The updated memorial in Poets' Corner, now with the correct spelling of the Brontë sisters' surname

• Abbey recognises forgotten role of The Shakespeare Ladies Club

  Wednesday, 11th June 2025

  Westminster Abbey is officially recognising the central role played by The Shakespeare Ladies Club in reviving Shakespeare’s reputation and the campaign to erect a memorial to the writer in Poets’ Corner in 1741.

• Ticket ballot opens for Stephen Hawking Memorial Service

  Wednesday, 9th May 2018

  A ballot opens 9th May for tickets for the Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Professor Stephen Hawking and the burial of his ashes.

  Stephen Hawking