Visit - Westminster Abbey
WEBWe’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.
Worship & music - Westminster Abbey
WEBWe’ve been a place of worship since the tenth century. We hold services every day, and music is an important feature of many of them.
A royal church | Westminster Abbey
WEBSep 15, 2024 · 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
WEB30. Monday, 23rd September 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.
游览大教堂 | 威斯敏斯特大教堂 - Westminster Abbey
WEB地址：The Chapter Office, Westminster Abbey, 20 Dean’s Yard, London SW1P 3PA. 地铁. 威斯敏斯特站（Westminster）（Jubilee、District及Circle线）. 圣詹姆斯公园（James’ Park）（District及Circle线）. 铁路.
Order of Service - Westminster Abbey
WEB4 days ago · Welcome to Westminster Abbey. Daily prayer has been offered in this place for over a thousand years, and your participation in today's service is warmly welcomed. At choral Evensong most of the service is sung by the choir on our behalf. We participate through our presence and our listening, that the words and the music might become a …
Evensong - Westminster Abbey
WEBSunday, 22nd September 2024; Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity; 3.00pm: Evensong: Quire: sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey: This service will be live-streamed. Howells I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills Ayleward Responses Noble in B minor Williams Almighty God, look down with mercy (part of the Voice and Verse season) Bach Fugue in E flat. …
History - Westminster Abbey
WEBIn monastic times, they were used to grow food and to provide a space for quiet meditation. One of the oldest surviving parts of Westminster Abbey, built around 1070. It still possesses many medieval features including tiles from the 11th century. Ten statues to 20th Century Christians who gave up their lives for their beliefs, including Dr ...
George IV - Westminster Abbey
WEBGeorge IV's coronation in the Abbey on 19th July 1821 was a superbly extravagant pageant that cost a staggering £230,000. He had a new crown containing over 12,000 diamonds specially made. The ageing and obese King sweltered in his suit, thick velvet coronation robes, a long curled wig and plumed hat, and he used no fewer than nineteen ...
Edward the Confessor and Edith - Westminster Abbey
WEBEdward, 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.
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