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Edward's shrine
Find out about the many elaborate royal funerals have taken place in Westminster Abbey prior to burial here.
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Christian Animals
From mice to elephants and dragons to unicorns, the Abbey is an ark of exciting animals. Popping up on memorials, knight helmets, flags and candlesticks, animals have acted as symbols of power, loyalty and courage and captured our imagination in terrific tales for hundreds of years. Choose your animal counterpart and explore the Abbey's marvellous menagerie.
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Westminster Abbey’s performance of Messiah
Wednesday, 15th April 2009
Westminster Abbey’s performance of Messiah by G.F. Handel on Tuesday 14th April 2009 was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and in a number of European countries.
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Tour: Memorials and Memory
Saturday, 17th January 2026
Who is buried here and why? Take a fresh look at the Abbey as an evolving place of national memory on this thought-provoking guided tour.
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Tour: Memorials and Memory
Thursday, 12th February 2026
Who is buried here and why? Take a fresh look at the Abbey as an evolving place of national memory on this thought-provoking guided tour.
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Tour: Memorials and Memory
Saturday, 21st March 2026
Who is buried here and why? Take a fresh look at the Abbey as an evolving place of national memory on this thought-provoking guided tour.
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Tour: Memorials and Memory
Thursday, 16th April 2026
Who is buried here and why? Take a fresh look at the Abbey as an evolving place of national memory on this thought-provoking guided tour.
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Summer: Wild Westminster Family Day
Tuesday, 26th August 2025
Go wild in Westminster! Explore the plants and creatures of our walled garden, where nature has thrived for centuries.
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Voice and Verse Family Day: Get Creative!
Friday, 1st November 2024
Release your imagination this half term. Take inspiration from famous poets, writers and creatives buried and remembered in Westminster Abbey to boost your family creativity.
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William Fowler
William Fowler, born about 1400, was buried in St Dunstan's chapel according to information contained in the will of his son, Sir Richard Fowler (c.1425-1477).
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3. Adeliza
Ahead of the Coronation of Their Majesties The King and The Queen Consort on 6 May, we’ll be sharing stories from each of the 38 Coronation services held here since 1066.
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Christianity – some basics
Would you like to know more about the Christian faith? Here’s a short guide: how it began, its beliefs and practices plus, help if you’d like to explore it further.
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‘May God bless and guide you, Larry’
Maddy Fry explores actor Laurence Olivier's complex relationship with both Christianity and the Abbey.
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Writers and thinkers
After Geoffrey Chaucer was buried here, Poets’ Corner became the place where many other creative people were buried and remembered. This space in the Abbey’s South Transept remembers people who have explored the world in all sorts of creative ways. Stretch your creative muscles with these videos.
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About the Abbey
An architectural masterpiece of the 13th to 16th centuries, Westminster Abbey has become a treasure house of artefacts. This is also the coronation church where some of the most significant people in Britain's history are buried or commemorated.
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On the trail of love: the Eleanor crosses
In 2024, historian Alice Loxton retraced the 200-mile route of Eleanor of Castile’s memorial crosses and discovered one of the most romantic stories in British history.
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An Evening with Helen Castor: The Eagle and the Hart
Thursday, 9th October 2025
Renowned medieval historian Helen Castor explores the fateful relationship between the complex King Richard II and his usurper cousin King Henry IV in this thought-provoking talk with live Q&A.
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Suffragan Bishop of Lewes consecrated at Abbey
Wednesday, 14th May 2014
The Right Reverend Richard Jackson was ordained and consecrated to the episcopate as Suffragan Bishop of Lewes in the Diocese of Chichester by the Archbishop of Canterbury and other bishops at a Eucharist in the Abbey on Wednesday 14th May 2014, the feast of St Matthias the Apostle.
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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.
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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.
