The service always includes one or more psalms. These ancient prayers, taken from the Old Testament, reflect the full range ...

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 Matins most of the service is sung ...

Services are free of charge. Times and locations may change at short notice. Security checks are in place upon entry. Photography is not permitted during services. The Society of Our Lady of Pew ...

Everyone is welcome to attend these recitals, free of charge. Security checks are in place upon entry. It’s very hard not to be enthusiastic working at the Abbey. If this place doesn’t make you smile ...

Special services, concerts, lectures, events for families and more – there’s something for everyone at the Abbey. Many of our events are free and open to anyone.

This is a service of Word and Sacrament in which the Holy Scriptures are read, a sermon is preached, prayers are offered, and bread and wine are consecrated and received as the body and blood of Jesus ...

Elizabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt was born on 1st November 1864. She was named after Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231), a Catholic saint of her own family. Her mother died when she was a child, and she came ...

Opposite the west entrance of Westminster Abbey is a tall marble and stone column, erected in 1861 and designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, which remembers former pupils of Westminster School who ...

The internationally renowned Abbey Choir sings the majority of the daily services in the Abbey, as well as giving concerts, making recordings and broadcasting on radio and television under the ...

Joan was a daughter of Edward I and his queen Eleanor of Castile and was born at Acre in the spring of 1272. You are surrounded by history at the Abbey, not like a museum where it’s just displayed, ...

He was buried in the north cloister of the Abbey on 1st June 1771, age 86 but he has no gravestone or memorial. He was the eldest son of Daniel Markham of Kinsale in Ireland, who was descended from an ...

In 1662 Charles married Portuguese infanta Catherine of Braganza, daughter of King John IV (she is buried in Portugal). They had no children but Charles had 13 children by various mistresses. Charles ...