A service to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) will take place at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 8th May 2025 as the nation comes together to honour and pay tribute to ...

Westminster Abbey was already ancient when New York was ... The grounds include ancient cloisters, homes of clergy and senior staff, and three gardens. The towers were completed in the mid-18th ...

replete with cloisters for the heated disputations of barristers. Imagine the hustle and bustle of the city disappearing as you enter the picturesque St James Park, home to the ancient Westminster ...

The Abbey is also home to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. It is believed that there are around 3,300 people buried in the Church and Cloisters. One person commemorated in Westminster Abbey is Thomas ...

Westminster Abbey has today joined landmarks around the UK in marking Holocaust Memorial Day. The Abbey's nave was lit in purple in support of Light the Darkness – a national moment to remember 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 ...

Events began on Saturday, November 2, with the dedication of the Submariner’s Remembrance Garden at Westminster Abbey and was followed by wreath laying in the West Cloisters of Westminster Abbey at ...

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 ...

TWO years ago this month, Andrew Nethsingha was appointed Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey ... he’s buried in the cloisters. I walk past him every day.” Other musicians with ...

Serving up breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea, Westminster Abbey’s dining destination Cellarium has been ... underground in the World Heritage Site’s historic vaulted medieval cloisters, or in its ...

What else can you do when you visit? Besides its Sunday service and guided tours, you can have your afternoon tea at the Cellarium Café and Terrace, located in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey and ...