Westminster Abbey ... Edward the Confessor whose magnificent shrine stands just behind the High Altar. Henry III, who built the church you see today, is buried near him. From 1503 Henry VII lavished ...

Westminster Abbey also serves as a resting place for past monarchs and has held many royal funerals. Across both St. Edward's Chapel and the ... the chapels and royal tombs and can even view ...

The tombs of kings, queens, statesmen, poets, scientists, warriors and musicians lie within Westminster Abbey ... Princess Margaret, in St. George’s chapel.

The setting of Charles III’s crowning in Westminster Abbey in London lends grandeur ... The Cosmati pavement extended into St Edward’s Chapel, with the Confessor’s shrine (4) encircled by royal tombs.

“When you go to Westminster ... s control include St. George’s Chapel in Windsor, where Queen Elizabeth II is interred, Chapel Royal at Holyrood Palace, and several chapels in London. The ...

The church became known as the "west minster" to distinguish it from St Paul's Cathedral ... in 1953, Westminster Abbey has hosted every British coronation, with the exception of Edward ...

Westminster Abbey now assumed an important role in making a political reality of the Norman cultural imperialism that its architecture foreshadowed. After Edward’s ... of St Hugh of Lincoln and, at ...

Henry III is building up his own status by way of Edward (after whom he also named his first son). “The centerpiece [of the new Westminster Abbey] was a lavish new shrine for the Confessor’s ...