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• Late: Abbey after hours

  Wednesday, 10th June 2026

  Enjoy a peaceful, self-guided visit to Westminster Abbey after hours, with time and space to explore at your own pace.

  Ticketing information Tickets cost £15 (adult) and £7 (child).

• Late: Abbey after hours

  Wednesday, 15th July 2026

  Enjoy a peaceful, self-guided visit to Westminster Abbey after hours, with time and space to explore at your own pace.

  Ticketing information Tickets cost £15 (adult) and £7 (child).

• Late: Abbey after hours

  Wednesday, 5th August 2026

  Enjoy a peaceful, self-guided visit to Westminster Abbey after hours, with time and space to explore at your own pace.

  Ticketing information Tickets cost £15 (adult) and £7 (child).

• Edward Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury

  Politician

  Edward Talbot, 8th Earl of Shrewsbury, was buried in St Edmund's chapel in Westminster Abbey. His wife Jane erected a large monument for him.

  kneeling figure of a child, dressed in blue, is also shown on the monument (they had one son who predeceased his father so this is probably him although dressed...

• Gell Family

  Members of the Gell family, including Daniel, Anthony, William Egerton, John Henry and Katherine, are buried or memorialised in the Abbey precincts.

  The children of Anthony and Frances, in addition to the two mentioned on the stone, who were buried in the cloisters were Thomas 1766, Ann 1769, Frederick 1775,...

• Queen Victoria

  Queen Victoria was crowned at Westminster Abbey on 28th June 1838, aged 19. The ceremony took five hours and suffered from a lack of rehearsal.

  Alexandrina Victoria was the only child of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (a son of George III) and his wife Princess Victoria.

• William III

  William III and Mary II were crowned as joint monarchs in the Abbey on 11th April 1689 – the first time this had happened in England. Their wax effigies are on display.

  William was the only child of William II, Prince of Orange and Princess Mary, eldest daughter of Charles I of England.

• Edward VI

  Edward succeeded his father when he was just 9 years old and was crowned in the Abbey on 20th February 1547. He died in 1553.

  He was a well-educated but sickly child.

• James Oswald

  Politician

  James Oswald was buried in the north aisle of the nave in 1769. A small rectangular brass with a decorated border now covers his grave.

  Their only child was James Townsend Oswald, who succeeded his father as M.P.

• Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Writer and Poet

  The poet Robert Browning is buried in Poets' Corner. His wife, poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, is buried in Florence, but is memorialised in Westminster Abbey.

  She was a child of Edward Barrett and was an invalid when Robert began a correspondence with her which led to a secret engagement and later marriage.

• Florence Nightingale & Nurses' chapel

  Nurse

  The Nurses' Memorial Chapel, in the upper Islip chantry chapel, was re-dedicated to Florence Nightingale, on the centenary of her death.

  Harper and others) and shows the Virgin and Child standing on a crescent moon and St Luke, the "beloved physician" standing on a rainbow.

• Richard Mead

  Physician and Doctor

  The memorial to Dr Richard Mead is to be found on the north side of the nave but he is actually buried in Temple Church.

  the first he had ten children, of whom only three survived him, two daughters married to eminent physicians and one son, bearing his own name, who in piety erected...

• Winifred, Marchioness of Winchester

  In the chapel of St Nicholas in Westminster Abbey is a large monument to Winifred, Marchioness of Winchester. It is attributed to sculptor Garrett Johnson.

  There is also a figure of a baby girl on a small sarcophagus, being a child who obviously died in infancy.

• James Hamilton, Earl of Abercorn & Family

  Soldier

  Colonel James Hamilton, and the 6th and 7th Earls of Abercorn are buried in the Abbey.

  5th Countess of Abercorn She was the only child of James, Lord Paisley and his wife Catherine and married as her second husband Charles, 5th Earl of Abercorn.

• Charles Kingsley

  Writer, Poet and Priest/Minister

  A bust to writer and poet Charles Kingsley has been moved from St George's chapel to Poets' Corner. By T. Woolner.

  ...Westminster His Life He was born on 12th June 1819 at Holne in Devon, a child of the Reverend Charles Kingsley (1781-1860) and his wife Mary (Lucas), who was...

• Esther John

  A statue to this modern martyr, Esther John, was unveiled in July 1998 and stands above the west entrance to Westminster Abbey.

  Her Life Esther John was born Qamar Zia, on 14th October 1929, one of seven children.

• Alexander, James and William Johnstone

  Soldier

  Alexander, Sir James and William Johnstone, sons of Sir James Johnstone of Scotland, are buried in the south cloister of the Abbey.

  His illegitimate children were Ann, wife of Mr Scott, and James Murray Johnstone.

• Lady Elizabeth & Joseph Nightingale

  In St Michael’s chapel, off the north transept of Westminster Abbey, is a remarkable monument, by L.F. Roubiliac, commemorating Lady Elizabeth Nightingale and her husband Joseph.

  This child, also called Elizabeth, survived and later married Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne and died (also in childbirth) in 1755.

• Nicholas Dering

  On the south wall of St Margaret's church Westminster is a cartouche to Nicholas Dering (or Dearing). The inscription is in Latin and English.

  He had by his wife Eliz[abeth] 8 children, 6 lie here interred.

• Stephen Hawking

  Physicist, Scientist and Writer

  The ashes of eminent physicist Professor Stephen Hawking were interred in the nave of Westminster Abbey near Newton.

  His first wife Jane and two of his children, Tim and Lucy, laid flowers.