The Queen has unveiled the foundation stone for a major new project at Westminster Abbey, a place she described as “very special”. Camilla returned to the site of the King Charles III Sacristy ...

William was buried in the abbey he founded in Caen ... as do earlier stone statues of George V, by William Reid Dick, in Westminster’s Old Palace Yard and Edward VII in Waterloo Place, by ...

The royal family has arrived at Westminster Abbey for the annual VE Day service ... who was just nine-years-old and close to death in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Steven, now 89, told ...

In London, so vast were the crowds which visited Westminster Abbey and St Paul’s ... Every inch of the square itself was jammed with people — even the statues were crowded out. One man perched for ...

The Reverend Helena Bickley-Percival, Minor Canon and Sacrist at the Abbey, reflects on the Arma Christi, the symbols of Christ’s passion, on the High Altar’s Lenten array. The Reverend Helena Bickley ...

Cromwell had died in 1658 and had originally been buried in Westminster Abbey. However, following the Restoration ... coffee (there is a small café), it contains various commemorative statues ...

whose death in 1065 led to the invasion and conquest of England by William the Conqueror. The bones of Edward the Confessor still lie in his Shrine behind the High Altar. The Abbey is packed with ...

English medieval shrine bases are a rarity and the substantial remains of only eight comparable examples are known today, including that of Birinus at Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, and Edward the ...

A Medieval silk bag the size of a clenched fist is revealing previously little-known links between Westminster Abbey and Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor. The bag, which remains in the ...

As he walked to his death ... Bonhoeffer is honoured at Westminster Abbey in London as one of 10 20th Century martyrs, including Martin Luther King Jr and the murdered Archbishop of San Salvador, ...

London’s Westminster Abbey flew Pakistan’s flag on March 22 to observe a tradition that dates back more than 50 years and is unrelated to Easter, an Abbey spokesperson told Reuters ...

Westminster Abbey ... Since 1998, ten statues of 20th-century Christian martyrs from around the globe have graced the Great West Door of the abbey, including Maximilian Kolbe, Martin Luther ...