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A Service of Thanksgiving for the life of The Lord King of Wartnaby
Thursday, 26th October 2006
The Rector of St Margaret's Church, Canon Robert Wright, officiated and gave the Bidding and the Blessing.
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St Maximilian Kolbe
Priest/Minister
St Maximilian Kolbe is one of ten martyrs with a memorial statue above the west door of Westminster Abbey. He offered his own life to save a fellow prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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Charles de St. Denis, Sieur de St. Evremond
Writer and Soldier
Charles de St. Denis, Sieur (or Lord) of St Evremond, soldier and writer, was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
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Catherine, Lady St John of Bletso
Catherine, Lady St John of Bletso was buried in Westminster Abbey in March 1615. Her monument had originally shown her two children, Oliver and Anne.
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Lunchtime concert: St Margaret's Consort
Wednesday, 12th June 2024
A musical journey through 500 years of English history.
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Maud Holland, Countess of St Pol
Maud Holland, Countess of St Pol was apparently buried in Westminster Abbey but the location of her grave is unknown.
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St Margaret's choir war memorial
Soldier and Airman
Former choristers of St Margaret's church Westminster who died in the two world wars are commemorated by brass plaques in the church.
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Ordination and Consecration of Bishops
Thursday, 14th May 2015
The Reverend Canon Martin Seeley, Principal, Westcott House, was ordained and consecrated Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich; and the Reverend Canon Michael Beasley, Director of Mission in the Diocese of Oxford, was ordained and consecrated Bishop of Hertford in the Diocese of St Albans at a Eucharist at Westminster Abbey on Ascension day, Thursday 14th May 2015.
Ordination and Consecration of Bishops Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich Bishop of Hertford
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Canon Jane Sinclair to retire
Tuesday, 31st March 2020
The Reverend Canon Jane Sinclair, Rector of St Margaret’s, will retire on 30th April after five and a half years as a Canon of Westminster.
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Chapel reveals old stonework
Friday, 14th September 2007
The conservators have discovered a discarded fragment of stonework in the Chapel of St John the Baptist.
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Abbey service for St Oscar Romero
Saturday, 17th November 2018
A Solemn Evensong of Thanksgiving for the Canonisation of St Oscar Romero was held at Westminster Abbey on Saturday 17th November 2018.
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The Feast of St Michael and All Angels at Westminster Abbey
Monday, 10th September 2007
Westminster Abbey's choir has released a new CD on the Hyperion label.
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The Chennai Books Project
Thursday, 30th March 2006
A lunchtime concert was held in St Margaret's Church on Thursday 30th March by some of the Lay Vicars of the Choir of Westminster Abbey.
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A Service of Thanksgiving for the life and work of The Rt Hon Lord Elton
Tuesday, 6th February 2024
A Service of Thanksgiving for the life and work of Lord Elton will be held in St Margaret's Church.
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St Margaret’s holds Parliament service to mark Centenary
Tuesday, 6th November 2018
A service for Parliament to mark the centenary of the end of World War I was held at St Margaret's Church on 6th November 2018.
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A Service of Thanksgiving for the Lord Morris of Aberavon
Wednesday, 28th February 2024
A Service of Thanksgiving for the life and work of The Rt Hon the Lord Morris of Aberavon KG, KC will be held in St Margaret's Church, Westminster on Wednesday 28th February 2024.
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Abbey loans rare 1588 first edition Welsh Bible to St Davids Cathedral
Monday, 16th June 2025
A rare 1588 Welsh Bible from Westminster Abbey’s Library collection – the first complete translation of the Bible into the Welsh language – has been loaned to St Davids Cathedral, where it will go on public display for the first time this week.
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Handel Jephtha performed by the Westminster Abbey Choir and St James
Friday, 18th June 2004
Handel's last oratorio, Jephtha, written in 1751 as the composer's health was failing was both moving and magnificent against the background of the Nave of Westminster Abbey.
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Nelson - 200th Anniversary Celebrations
Friday, 21st October 2005
The Choir of St Margaret's Church made their own contribution to the Trafalgar anniversary celebrations on 23rd October by singing music from Haydn's 'Nelson Mass' during the 11 o'clock Eucharist service.
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Lecture: Why aren't there more beautiful places?
Thursday, 21st May 2026
Novelist and non-fiction writer Francis Spufford gives the annual Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture in Westminster Abbey on Thursday 21st May.
