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General information

Opening Times | Ticket Prices | Services

We’re open to visitors most days, but as Westminster Abbey is a living working church, we may need to close some areas off to the public at times.

You can view our full opening times to see which areas are open on the day you visit.

General opening times from 11th December

Fridays: 10.00am-2.00pm
Saturdays: 10.00am-1.00pm
Sundays: Open for services

We will also be open from Tuesday 29th - Thursday 31st December from 10.00am - 3.30pm

How to get to the Abbey

The Chapter Office, Westminster Abbey, 20 Dean’s Yard, London, SW1P 3PA

Underground

Westminster (Jubilee, District & Circle Lines)
St. James’s Park (District and Circle Lines)

National Rail

London Victoria (0.8 miles)
London Waterloo (0.8 miles)

Buses

Find your best journey via the Transport for London website

Plan your visit

Our plan your visit page has everything you need to know about visiting the Abbey.

Plan your visit

Attend a service

For a unique experience, attend one of the Abbey’s daily services – check the listing to find one that suits you.

Service listings

Inside the Abbey

At the heart of the nation

A place for worship, celebration and ceremony, many of Britain’s most significant historic moments of the past one thousand years have happened here. Since 1066, the Abbey has hosted every coronation, and is the final resting place for the great kings, queens, poets, musicians, scientists and politicians of our past. We’d love you to come and take a look.

Our history
The Coronation Chair on a stepped wooden podium surrounded by gold-fringed red curtain in St George's Chapel, Westminster Abbey

The Coronation Chair

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Statues and monuments in Poets' Corner, including William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Jane Austen

Poets' Corner

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Kings, queens and royal visits

The Abbey has hosted many of Britain’s most significant historic events. It has been the coronation church since 1066, and we’ve held 16 royal weddings. 30 kings and queens are buried here.

Royalty

Famous names of the Abbey

More than 3,000 famous people are buried and many others commemorated in the Abbey, including kings and queens, writers, musicians, scientists, politicians, and noblemen and women.

See them all
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Support Us

Support Us

Support from our visitors and donors helps us care for the Abbey and keeps us open as a living working church. We are independent and receive no funding from the Church, the Government or, the Crown. So, your help really counts.

How you can help

TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence

Westminster Abbey was awarded the 2018 Hall of Fame Certificate of Excellence from
TripAdvisor which 'recognises 5 consecutive years of consistently-high ratings from travellers'.

We appreciate your feedback, so please leave a review of the Abbey on the TripAdvisor website.

TripAdvisor 2018 Certificate of Excellence

I feel very privileged to work here. I take so much pride in working for a beautiful place like the Abbey, it’s unique.

Alex - Abbey Marshal

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