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Oil paintings
Several interesting oil paintings hang within Westminster Abbey or form part of its decoration. Most have been presented to the Abbey.
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Evening Service Address: "Abraham and Isaac"
Sunday, 1st March 2020
Address given at the Evening Service "Abraham and Isaac": Let us not omit our questions in the search for truth. Britten wrote Abraham and Isaac just after the premiere of his opera,.
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Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday before Advent 2023
Sunday, 19th November 2023
Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Second Sunday before Advent 2023: Where is the violence we see and sometimes experience actually coming from? In a world full of wrath, and.
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Misericords
The word misericord comes from the Latin misericordia, meaning pity or mercy. These hinged oak seats in the chapel tip up to form a ledge.
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Address at the dedication of a memorial to Owen and Henry Chadwick
Thursday, 1st February 2018
Address given by Professor Eamon Duffy, Professor of the History of Christianity, University of Cambridge
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11th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 9th May 1996
Delivered by David Hare, Playwright at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 9th May 1996 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.
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Edward the Confessor and Edith
Edward the Confessor was King from 1042 to 1066. He founded a monastery to St Peter, known as Westminster Abbey. His body still lies in his Shrine.
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31st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 26th May 2016
Roger Scruton, philosopher, public commentator and author, gives the 31st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture on the topic of The Sacred, the Profane and the Desecrated.
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34th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 9th May 2019
Sir James MacMillan argues that the search for the sacred did not end with modernity in music and that it has grown and become complex.
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29th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Friday, 25th July 2014
The Reverend Dr Sam Wells, Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, gives the 29th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture on the topic 'Beyond Justice'.
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28th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 2nd May 2013
Dame Averil Cameron gives the 28th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture on Constantine's Vision and the Church Today - From the Battle of the Milvian Bridge (AD 312) to the twenty-first century.
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18th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 8th May 2003
Delivered by The Reverend Professor Duncan B Forrester, New College, The University of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 8th May 2003 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.
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12th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 15th May 1997
Delivered by The Rt Rev. and Rt Hon. Lord Habgood at Westminster Abbey on Thursday the 15th May 1997 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.
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10th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 4th May 1995
Delivered by The Most Revd Richard Holloway D.D., Bishop of Edinburgh, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 4th May 1995 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford and Lincoln Theological College.
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The Charles Gore Lecture 2016
Tuesday, 15th March 2016
Speaker: The Right Reverend and Right Honourable The Lord (Rowan) Williams; Chair: The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
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The Charles Gore Lecture 2008
Tuesday, 29th April 2008
I was interested to hear recently from a distinguished professor of liturgics in the United States that he considers Charles Gore's book, The Body of Christ, to be a classical and enduring exposition of the Eucharist and assigns it to be read by his students.
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One People Oration 2019
Monday, 21st October 2019
There are many churches and cathedrals in the world, some of which are more beautiful, more ancient, more glorious than Westminster Abbey.
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One People Oration 2000
Monday, 10th July 2000
Speaker: General Sir Michael Rose
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15th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 4th May 2000
Delivered by The Reverend Canon Dr Martyn Percy at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 4th May 2000 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford and the Cathedral, Sheffield.
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20th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 12th May 2005
Delivered by The Reverend Nicholas Holtam, Vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 12th May 2005 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.