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Westminster Abbey
20 Dean's Yard
London
SW1P 3PA
Westminster Abbey
20 Dean's Yard
London
SW1P 3PA
The Abbey will re-open for sightseeing visitors from Friday 21st May.
In the meantime, we remain open for worship and you are welcome to join us at our daily services. We are also open for individual prayer from 10:30am - 12:30pm, Monday to Saturday.
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Westminster Abbey is a treasure house of paintings, stained glass, textiles and artefacts – and is also where some significant people are buried or remembered.
The Westminster Retable is England's oldest altarpiece. It is acknowledged to be amongst the most important surviving examples of panel painting from 13th century England.
We have four processional crosses. The one used most often is made from ivory and silver gilt, and adorned with panels of gold and sapphires.
Two icons were dedicated in the nave in 1994 and are near the grave of the Unknown Warrior. An icon of St Edward the Confessor was dedicated in 2019.
We have six processional banners, which are carried at festivals and certain special services. At other times, they’re usually displayed either side of the altar.
An architectural masterpiece of the 13th to 16th centuries, Westminster Abbey houses tombs and memorials to kings and queens and the famous and the great.
Our most important wall paintings are from the late 13th century, and include the figures of St Faith, Christ with St Thomas, and St Christopher.
Westminster Abbey now has ten bells which are rung on church festivals and for royal and other occasions.
The monks at Westminster Abbey wore the habit of the Order of St Benedict, who established the Benedictine rules for the monks in about 540AD.
List of Abbots of the monastery and Deans of the Collegiate Church.
Above the Abbey's Great West Door stand ten statues to modern martyrs - Christians who gave up their lives for their beliefs.
The Abbey uses many different vestments and altar hangings during the year.
The Christmas Crib figures at Westminster Abbey were carved at Oberammergau in 1965.
