Each year, the Dean and Chapter of Westminster offers the reigning monarch, as the Abbey’s Visitor, our annual report on the fulfilment of the mission of the Collegiate Church of St Peter in ...
The Abbey has been the coronation church since 1066, and is the final resting place of 17 monarchs. The church we see today was begun by Henry III in 1245. It’s one of the most important Gothic ...
At the western end of the nave of Westminster Abbey is a black Belgian marble stone on top of a grave that conceals a coffin containing a body once buried in France during World War One.
The Stone of Destiny, which was used in the inauguration of Scottish kings for centuries, was seized by King Edward I and built into a throne at Westminster Abbey in 1296. Also known as the Stone ...