On the first anniversary of the Coronation of Their Majesties The King and Queen, members of the Westminster Abbey team talk about the planning and work that went into preparing the Abbey for the ...
By Lynsey Chutel Reporting from Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey For 85 years, the names of three of English literature’s best-known writers, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, were featured in ...
An architectural masterpiece of the 13th to 16th centuries, Westminster Abbey also presents a unique pageant of British history – the shrine of St Edward the Confessor, the tombs of kings and queens, ...
A David Hockney-designed stained glass window celebrating the Queen's reign has been revealed at Westminster Abbey. The Queen's Window in the north transept replaces one of the building's few ...
The rectangular stone tablet is in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey, where writers including Shakespeare, Dickens and Austen are commemorated. The inscriptions were installed in 1939 as a ...
Tucked away in a south-eastern corner of Westminster Abbey lies Weston Tower, a new glass, metal and stone structure that nestles neatly between the 13th Century Chapterhouse and 16th Century Lady ...
With a history which stretches all the way back to the 10th century, Westminster Abbey has stood through the lives of important people and world-changing events. But who is buried in in the floor ...
Then, a man called Brigadier General Louis John Wyatt, who commanded the British troops in France, was tasked with choosing which body would be buried at Westminster Abbey. Just after the stroke ...
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two ...
The Queen has toured the site of a new building at Westminster Abbey which aims to transform the welcome offered to millions ...
Queen Camilla has arrived at The Westminster Abbey Sacristy Project this morning to view the site of The King Charles III Sacristy – a new building being constructed adjacent to the Abbey on the ...
Westminster Abbey is generally busy – and the staff keeps you moving at a pretty swift pace – so do a little research ahead of time to avoid missing your personal must-sees. For instance ...