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• Paul Baumann CBE LVO

  Paul Baumann CBE is Chapter Clerk and Receiver General, the most senior lay position at the Abbey and, in effect, the chief executive.

• Finding our place in community

  A reflection for Holy Week by the Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle, Dean of Westminster

• Florence Nightingale remembered at annual service

  Thursday, 16th May 2024

  A Service to Commemorate the Life of Florence Nightingale was held at Westminster Abbey at 6.30pm on Wednesday 15th May 2024.

  Special Service Florence Nightingale

• Princess of Wales to host Abbey carol service

  Wednesday, 13th November 2024

  A photograph of HRH The Princess of Wales smiling as she arrives outside Westminster Abbey for a service

• Florence Nightingale remembered at annual service

  Monday, 12th May 2025

  A Service to Commemorate the Life of Florence Nightingale was held at Westminster Abbey at 6.30pm on Wednesday 12th May 2025. The service is held annually to celebrate nursing and midwifery and all staff, both qualified and unqualified, and the importance of supporting one another through challenging times.

• Monk-ish Easter Morsels for Abbey Choristers

  Monday, 28th March 2005

  Choristers at Westminster Abbey tucked into a traditional Easter pudding, last eaten by Monks 500 years ago.

  Principal Pudding Easter

• Wreath laying marks Lord Kelvin centenary

  Monday, 17th December 2007

  Representatives from the University of Glasgow today laid a wreath at the grave of Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs, in the nave of the Abbey to mark the centenary of his death.

  William Thomson Lord Kelvin Wreathlaying

• A Service of Thanksgiving for the Life and Work of Lord Dearing CB

  Tuesday, 7th July 2009

  A Service of Thanksgiving for the Life and Work of Lord Dearing CB was held at St Margaret’s Church on Tuesday 7th July 2009.

  Lord Dearing

• Paul Baumann installed as Receiver General

  Paul Baumann CBE was installed as the Receiver General and Chapter Clerk of Westminster Abbey during Evensong on Saturday 12th January 2019.

• Abbey to commemorate the life of Florence Nightingale

  Monday, 21st February 2022

  A Service to Commemorate the Life of Florence Nightingale will be held at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday 11th May 2022.

• Florence Nightingale remembered at annual service

  Thursday, 12th May 2022

  The service is held annually to celebrate nursing and midwifery and all staff, both qualified and unqualified, and the importance of supporting one another through challenging times.

• Anointing Screen on display at the Abbey

  Sunday, 7th May 2023

  The central anointing screen used at the most sacred moment of the Coronation, the anointing of His Majesty The King, will be on display in Westminster Abbey in St George’s Chapel from Monday 8th May – Saturday 13th May, when the Coronation Theatre will also be on view.

  Coronation news

• Edwardtide Evensong attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster

  Monday, 19th October 2009

  The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr Rowan Williams, and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Reverend Vincent Nichols, gave a joint blessing at the end of an Edwardtide Evensong in Westminster Abbey.

  Edwardtide

• ANZAC Day Service

  Monday, 25th April 2011

  The Prime Minister of New Zealand, the Right Honourable John Key, and Mrs Bronagh Key, attended the annual Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving to mark ANZAC Day at Westminster Abbey on Monday 25th April 2011.

  ANZAC Day

• A Reflection on Legacy

  Friday, 5th June 2020

  This week, the Downing Street website announced that Her Majesty the Queen has given her approval to the appointment of a new Dean of Bristol.

  Friday Reflection

• Sir Palmes and Stafford Fairborne

  Statesman

  In the south aisle of the nave of Westminster Abbey is a white marble monument to Sir Palmes Fairborne. The sculptor was John Bushnell.

• Richard III

  Richard III was crowned in the Abbey on 6th July 1483. Almost the entire peerage of England was present at what was a magnificent spectacle.

• Henry VI

  Henry VI was crowned in Westminster Abbey in 1429 aged 8. He has a modern statue in the Lady Chapel.

• Denis Bond

  Politician

  Denis Bond, politician and follower of Cromwell, was buried in a vault in Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey, but was exhumed at the Restoration.

• Thomas Thirlby

  Priest/Minister

  Thomas Thirlby (c.1500-1570) was consecrated the first and only Bishop of the new short-lived diocese of Westminster in December 1540.