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• Her Majesty The Queen becomes Patron of Westminster Abbey's Sacristy project

  Tuesday, 18th June 2024

  HM The Queen has become Patron of a project to create a new building at Westminster Abbey – to be named The King Charles III Sacristy in honour of HM The King – which will transform the welcome offered to the millions of people who come from around the world to enjoy one of the world’s great churches.

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• New memorial for Ignatius Sancho

  Saturday, 14th October 2023

  Charles Ignatius Sancho who escaped from a background of slavery and rose to distinction in Georgian London, will be honoured when a new memorial is dedicated in St Margaret’s Church.

  St Margaret's Church

• Ampulla and spoon

  Understand the essential role that a small vessel and a spoon play in the most important part of the coronation service.

• Royal regalia

  Discover more about the objects presented to the monarch during the coronation service and find out what each one represents.

• Poet Laureates

  Curator Dr Susan Jenkins shares more about the lives and poetry of nine Poet Laureates who are buried or memorialised in Poets' Corner.

• Music

  Uncover the role and significance of traditional and commissioned music within coronations throughout history.

• Theodore Balisy

  Theodore Salomon De Balisy was buried in the east cloister of Westminster Abbey on 7th July 1721 has no marker. He was 90 years old.

• Westminster Abbey reveals Cromwell’s original grave

  Tuesday, 4th August 2009

  Visitors to Westminster Abbey until the end of August will be able to see the original grave of English Civil War revolutionary Oliver Cromwell for the first time in over 60 years.

  Oliver Cromwell

• Sir William Berkeley

  Sailor

  Vice Admiral Sir William Berkeley was buried in the north ambulatory but has no marker or monument. He was a son of Sir Charles Berkeley.

• Henry, Duke of Gloucester

  Henry, Duke of Gloucester, son of Charles I, was buried in the south aisle of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey on 21st September 1660.

• Lady Wood

  Mary was buried on 1st April 1665 but has no marker or monument. The location in the burial register says "near the Convocation door".

• David and George Gregorie

  Lawyer

  Brothers David and George Gregorie are buried in St Margaret's and both have memorial tablets on the north wall. They were sons of Charles Gregorie.

• Sir Roger Bannister honoured with new memorial stone

  A memorial stone to Sir Roger Bannister CH CBE was dedicated in Westminster Abbey on Tuesday 28th September 2021.

• Lewis Carroll

  Writer and Poet

  On 17th December 1982 a memorial in Poets’ Corner was dedicated to the poet and writer universally known as Lewis Carroll.

• Lady Mary Firebrace

  Lady Mary Firebrace was buried in the north cloister on 1st February 1688 and her infant daughter Mary was buried in the same grave.

• Richard Ingram, 5th Viscount Irvine

  Soldier

  Richard (Rich) Ingram, 5th Viscount Irvine (or Irwin) was buried in a vault at the east end of Henry VII's chapel on 17th April 1721.

• Thomas Chiffinch

  Servant

  Thomas Chiffinch [or Cheffin], servant to the King, was buried on 10th April 1666 in the south transept of Westminster Abbey.

• Princess Mary of Orange

  Princess Mary of Orange, eldest daughter of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, is buried in a vault in the south aisle of Henry VII's chapel.

• Albany Wallis

  Lawyer

  Albany Wallis, eminent solicitor of Norfolk Street in the Strand, and his son Albany Charles Wallis are buried in the east cloister of Westminster Abbey.