Visit | Westminster Abbey
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 and offer reduced opening hours. General opening times. Monday - Friday: 9.30am - 3.30pm (last entry) Saturday: 9.00am - 3.00pm (last entry) Sunday: Open for services.
A royal church | Westminster Abbey
2 days ago · An architectural masterpiece of the 13th to 16th centuries, Westminster Abbey has become a treasure house of artefacts. This is also the coronation church where some of the most significant people in Britain's history are buried or commemorated. Discover our history.
Prices & entry times - Westminster Abbey
Monday, 11th November 2024. Westminster Abbey General Admittance. 9.30am - 3.30pm. This includes the Cloisters, College Garden, Chapter House and the Pyx Chamber. Westminster Abbey Group Entry. 9.30am - 3.00pm. Group entry is not permitted between 12:00pm and 1:00pm. The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries. 10.00am - 3.00pm.
Architecture - Westminster Abbey
Corbel in the triforium known as "the crusty craftsman" The lantern and south transept. A spacious area between the high altar and the beginning of the quire was necessary to provide a 'theatre' where coronations could take place. The stonework (which came from Caen in France and Reigate in Surrey), the sculptured roof bosses and the other carvings would have been brightly coloured and the ...
Anne of Cleves, 4th wife of Henry VIII | Westminster Abbey
Anne of Cleves was born at Düsseldorf on 22nd September 1515, daughter of Johann III, Duke of Cleves, and his wife Marie. Marriage. Anne married Henry VIII as his fourth wife at Greenwich on 6th January 1540 but the marriage was annulled in …
Elizabeth I - Westminster Abbey
Elizabeth I. Queen Elizabeth I was the daughter of King Henry VIII by Anne Boleyn and was born at Greenwich on 7th September 1533. She succeeded her half-sister Mary I in 1558. Queen Elizabeth was the foundress of the present Collegiate Church of St Peter (the formal title for the Abbey) in 1560 (by charter of 21 May) and her long reign was one ...
Plan your visit - Westminster Abbey
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Worship & music - Westminster Abbey
6.00pm. Sung Eucharist. St Margaret's Church. sung by the St Margaret's Choristers and Consort. Fauré Requiem. Preacher: The Right Reverend Anthony Ball Canon Steward and Archdeacon of Westminster. View Order of Service. Services are free of charge. Times and locations may change at short notice.
Evensong - Westminster Abbey
Sunday, 10th November 2024; Third Sunday before Advent; 3.00pm: Evensong with Admission of Choristers: Quire: sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey: Rachmaninoff To thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul Ayleward Responses Stanford in G Harris Faire is the heaven Parry Chorale Prelude on 'St Anne's'. Preacher: The Reverend Jonathan Beswick Rector, London Docks with Wapping St John, Diocese of London
Edward the Confessor and Edith - Westminster Abbey
Edward, called the Confessor, was born at Islip in Oxfordshire between 1002 and 1005, the son of King Ethelred 'the Unready' and Emma. Driven from England by the Danes, and spending his exile in Normandy, the story goes that Edward vowed that if he should return safely to his kingdom, he would make a pilgrimage to St Peter's, Rome.