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• Canon calls for Faith in Asylum

  Thursday, 10th February 2005

  The British asylum system is expensive, inefficient and inhumane and too often we cannot be confident it comes to the right decision.

  Charles Gore Memorial Lectures

• Trade Justice Movement Event

  Friday, 15th April 2005

  The opening event of the Trade Justice Movement's vigil last Friday night, which took place in the Abbey, included singers Ronan Keating and Beverley Knight, and actors Vanessa Redgrave and Pete Postlethwhaite.

  Trade Justice Movement Make poverty history Action for Trade Justice

• Introducing The King Charles III Sacristy

  We’re transforming the welcome we offer to the millions of people who come to the Abbey to enjoy one of the world’s great churches. A new building – to be named The King Charles III Sacristy in honour of HM The King – will be constructed to house state-of-the-art welcome, security and ticketing facilities, allowing the Abbey itself to be preserved in all its beauty and wonder as a sacred space.

• Make a donation

  A charitable trust has been established to assist in the Abbey's fundraising efforts – The Westminster Abbey Trust. You can make a donation to the Trust.

• See Abbey in unprecedented detail with online tour

  Thursday, 7th July 2016

  It is one of the world's great churches, with a history stretching back over a thousand years. Now, for the first time, visitors from around the world can take a virtual tour inside Westminster Abbey using Google Street View.

  virtual tour

• HM The Queen visits Abbey's Sacristy project

  Thursday, 3rd October 2024

  Her Majesty The Queen visited Westminster Abbey on Thursday 3rd October to see the site of The King Charles III Sacristy where building work will begin early next year to transform the welcome the Abbey offers the millions of people who come from around the world to enjoy one of the world’s great churches.

  Sacristy

• HM The Queen unveils Sacristy foundation stone

  Wednesday, 14th May 2025

  Her Majesty The Queen visited Westminster Abbey on Wednesday 14th May to unveil the foundation stone for The King Charles III Sacristy - a new building which is being constructed to transform the welcome the Abbey offers the millions of people who come from around the world to enjoy one of the world’s great churches.

• Abbey marks the Centenary of the Royal British Legion

  Tuesday, 12th October 2021

  Her Majesty The Queen and Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal attended a Service of Thanksgiving to mark the Centenary of the Royal British Legion at Westminster Abbey on Tuesday 12th October.

  HM The Queen Prince Charles

• Building History

  Westminster Abbey was founded in the year 960 AD. Since then there have been three churches on the same site. The current church is 750 years old and full of beautiful statues and windows. Join us to find out about and recreate some of the wonders you would encounter inside.

• Protecting history

  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.

• Lunchtime concert: St Margaret's Consort

  Wednesday, 12th June 2024

  A musical journey through 500 years of English history.  

  Events Music

• Fraternité tour: Sororite!

  Saturday, 2nd March 2024

  Join us this Women’s History Month to explore the stories of some of the remarkable women who are woven into English and French history.

• Their Majesties The King and Queen crowned at the Abbey

  Saturday, 6th May 2023

  The Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla was held at Westminster Abbey on Saturday 6th May 2023.

  Coronation news

• Public mourning

  When Charles Dickens died at his home in Kent on 9th June 1870, it was presumed that he would be buried in Rochester Cathedral or in one of the nearby parish churches at Cobham or Shorne. This, after all, was what the author of some of the greatest novels in the English language had wanted.

• Onze geschiedenis

  Westminster Abbey is een bijzondere plek, die al sinds 960 een belangrijke rol speelt in de levens van koningen, koninginnen, staatslieden, soldaten, dichters, priesters, helden en boeven. Sinds 1066 vinden hier veel van de Britse kroningen plaats. Bovendien is de Abbey de laatste rustplaats van ruim 3000 beroemde Britten.

• A nossa História

  Explore um lugar que tocou a vida de reis, rainhas, estadistas e soldados, poetas, padres, heróis e vilões desde 960 d.C. A Abadia de Westminster é a igreja da coroação desde 1066 e o local de repouso de mais de 3000 grandes ingleses.

• Historia

  Odkryj miejsce, w którym od 960 r. n.e. przecinają się ścieżki królów, królowych, mężów stanu i żołnierzy, poetów, duchownych, bohaterów i złoczyńców. Opactwo Westminster od 1066 r. pełni funkcję kościoła koronacyjnego. Ponadto świątynia ta jest miejscem spoczynku ponad trzech tysięcy wielkich Brytyjczyków.

• История

  Познакомьтесь с окружением, в котором проходила жизнь особ королевских кровей, где творили историю государственные деятели и солдаты, поэты, священнослужители, герои и злодеи с 960 года н.э. Вестминстерское аббатство является местом коронации всех английских монархов с 1066 года, а на его территории расположено более 3000 захоронений выдающихся личностей Великобритании.

• 当寺院の歴史

  西暦960年より、王や女王、政治家、軍人、詩人、聖職者、英雄、悪人などのゆかりの場所を訪ねましょう。1066年以来、戴冠式が執り行われてきたウェストミンスター寺院には、3千人以上の偉大なイギリス人が埋葬されています。

• 教堂历史

  自公元960年以来，这里就与众多君主和王后、政客与士兵、诗人和牧师、英雄和反派的生平经历息息相关。威斯敏斯特教堂自1066年起就是君主加冕教堂，也是3000多位不列颠著名人士的长眠之所。