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• 750th Anniversary of Simon de Montfort Parliament

  Friday, 23rd January 2015

  The 750th anniversary of the Simon de Montfort Parliament was remembered at Evensong in Westminster Abbey at 5.00 pm on Thursday 22nd January 2015.

  Special Service Simon de Montfort Parliament Chapter House

• Canon Theologian to retire

  Tuesday, 6th March 2018

  The Reverend Professor Vernon White, who has been Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey since June 2011 and a Visiting Professor at King’s College London, is to retire at the end of September 2018.

  Reverend Vernon White

• Abbey brings Christian leaders together to celebrate Pentecost

  Sunday, 31st May 2020

  Westminster Abbey has brought together leaders of three major Christian denominations in the UK to celebrate Pentecost.

  Abbeycast Pentecost COVID-19

• New Mass setting to premiere on St Peter’s Day

  Thursday, 23rd June 2022

  A new Mass setting by acclaimed Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan will receive its premiere at Westminster Abbey during Sung Eucharist at 5.00pm on St Peter’s Day, Wednesday 29th June 2022.

• Creation Family Fun: Wild Westminster

  Friday, 2nd August 2024

  Investigate the Natural World this summer in our historic walled garden in central London.

  Events Family Creation

• A new girls' choir for St Margaret's Church

  Friday, 17th March 2023

  St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey, is to launch a new choir for girls aged eleven to seventeen.

  St Margaret's Church Music

• A Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving to mark ANZAC Day

  Monday, 26th April 2010

  Australians and New Zealanders packed Westminster Abbey on Sunday 25th April 2010 for the annual ANZAC Day service, which was attended by HRH The Duke of Gloucester, representing Her Majesty The Queen.

  ANZAC Day

• A Reflection on the Ascension

  Friday, 22nd May 2020

  If churches were open (and they are not), if public worship was held today (which it cannot be) and singers could sing (which they cannot) we might be hearing one of those familiar Ascension Day anthems, like God is gone up.

  Friday Reflection Ascension Day

• Daniel Pulteney

  Politician

  In the south cloister is a monument to politician Daniel Pulteney. His effigy reclines on a sarcophagus and he holds a book on his knee.

• Richard Tufton

  In the south ambulatory is a monument of black and white marble, with an oval recess in which is a bust, to Richard Tufton.

• Richard Willis & family

  On the south wall of St Margaret's church Westminster is a memorial tablet to Richard Willis and members of his family.

• 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.

• Abbey marks ANZAC Day 2014

  Friday, 25th April 2014

  His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester attended the annual Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving to mark ANZAC Day at Westminster Abbey on Friday 25th April 2014.

  Royal Visit HRH The Duke of Gloucester

• 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.