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• Westminster Abbey to be lit for Lumiere London Festival

  Monday, 4th January 2016

  Westminster Abbey will be the spectacular backdrop for a light installation as part of Lumiere London, the city's first major light festival. The exterior of the Abbey will be lit each evening of the festival, from Thursday 14th - Sunday 17th January 2016.

  Lumiere Festival

• Westminster Abbey celebrates 750th anniversary

  Tuesday, 15th October 2019

  Her Majesty The Queen and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall attended a service to celebrate the 750th anniversary of the re-building of Westminster Abbey today.

  Special Service 750th anniversary HM The Queen HRH The Duchess of Cornwall

• William I (the Conqueror)

  William of Normandy, known as 'the Conqueror', was born in 1027. He invaded England and defeated Harold II at the battle of Hastings in 1066.

• Roger Townshend

  Soldier

  The Honourable Lieutenant Colonel Roger Townshend has a monument in the south aisle of the nave. He is buried at Albany, New York.

• Sir James Stewart Denham

  Sir James Stewart (or Steuart) Denham has a memorial tablet by Joseph Wilton in a window splay in the nave of Westminster Abbey

• James II

  James II was born on 14th October 1633. His coronation with his queen, Mary of Modena, took place at Westminster Abbey on 23rd April 1685.

• James Rennell

  Engineer

  James Rennell, cartographer, is buried in the centre of the nave. His grave is now unmarked but just had his name, death date and age.

• William Blakeney

  Soldier

  General William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney, was buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey, but the gravestone wording is now very faint.

• Arthur Herbert, Earl of Torrington

  Politician and Sailor

  Arthur Herbert, Baron Torbay and Earl of Torrington, was buried on 22nd April 1716 in the "south aisle within the tombs" ie. the south ambulatory.

• William Bayne

  Sailor

  In the north transept is a tall monument of white and coloured marbles, known as The Three Captains memorial, by the sculptor Joseph Nollekens.

• Anna Beaumont

  In the chapel of St Nicholas is the shrine of Anna Sophia daughter of Christophe de Harley, Comte de Beaumont, Ambassador from the French Court.

• Sir Frederick Haldimand

  Soldier and Statesman

  Sir Frederick Haldimand, Knight of the Bath, is not buried in Westminster Abbey but his stall plate can be seen in Henry VII's chapel.

• Old Contemptibles, British Expeditionary Force

  Soldier

  In the west cloister is a memorial to the "Old Contemptibles", or British Expeditionary Force 1914. The monument is of limestone and Welsh blue slate.

• Arthur Phillip

  Sailor and Spymaster

  A memorial stone to Admiral Arthur Phillip, founder of New South Wales in Australia, can be seen in the centre part of the nave.

• Sir Richard Fletcher

  Soldier and Engineer

  Lieutenant Colonel Sir Richard Fletcher, chief engineer to the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular war, has a white marble memorial in the north west tower.

• Richard Kempenfelt

  Sailor

  In the chapel of St Michael is a column in memory of Admiral Richard Kempenfelt by John Bacon junior

• Admiral John Harrison

  Sailor

  In the south choir aisle, above the door into the cloister, is a memorial to Rear Admiral John Harrison. It consists of three quatrefoil panels.

• William Dalrymple

  Sailor

  In the south choir aisle of Westminster Abbey is a white and yellow marble monument to William Dalrymple. The sculptor was Robert Adam.

• Sir John Alexander Macdonald

  Politician and Lawyer

  In the chapel of the Order of the Bath there is an enamelled stall plate for Sir John Alexander Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada.

• Percy Dearmer

  Priest/Minister

  The ashes of Percy Dearmer, Canon of Westminster and professor of Ecclesiastical Art at King's College London, are buried in the north cloister.