The collegiate church of St Peter in Westminster, London, UK. There was probably a monastic settlement on this site from the 8th-c. The first recorded abbey church, consecrated in 1065, was replaced from 1245 by the present building in early English Gothic style. The monastery was dissolved in 1540. Westminster Abbey has a special importance in English history, serving as a coronation church and national shrine, with many memorials to those who have shaped the country's history and culture.
Thomson William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin Thomas Tompion The Unknown Warrior George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham Charles LyellNorth Transept
William Ewart Gladstone William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham William Pitt the YoungerSouth Transept
Poets' Corner
Robert Adam Robert Browning William Camden Thomas Campbell Geoffrey Chaucer William Congreve Abraham Cowley William Davenant Charles Dickens John Dryden Adam Fox David Garrick John Gay George Frederick Handel Thomas Hardy Dr Samuel Johnson Rudyard Kipling Thomas Macaulay John Masefield Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier Thomas Parr Dante Rossetti Richard Brinsley Sheridan Edmund Spenser Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron TennysonCloisters
Aphra Behn Percy Dearmer General John BurgoyneNorth Choir Aisle
Henry Purcell Ralph Vaughan WilliamsChapel of St Paul
Sir Rowland HillCommemorated
William Shakespeare, buried at Stratford-upon-Avon Sir Winston Churchill, buried at Bladon, Oxfordshire Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, buried at Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire Adam Lindsay Gordon, buried in Australia Lord Baden-Powell, buried in Nyeri, Kenya Paul Dirac, buried in Florida Oscar Wilde (in a stained glass window unveiled in 1995), buried in Paris Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, buried at Cambridge, Massachusetts General James Wolfe Ten 20th-century Christian martyrs from across the world are depicted in statues above the Great West Door.List of Abbots, Deans, and the Bishop of Westminster
| Abbots | |
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| Edwin | 1049 — c. 1071 |
| Geoffrey of Jumièges | c. 1071 — c. 1075 |
| Vitalis of Bernay | c. 1076 — 1085 |
| Gilbert Crispin | 1085 — 1117 |
| Herbert | 1121 — c. 1136 |
| Gervase de Blois | 1138 — c. 1157 |
| Laurence of Durham | c. 1158 — 1173 |
| Walter of Winchester | 1175 — 1190 |
| William Postard | 1191 — 1200 |
| Ralph de Arundel (alias Papillon) | 1200 — 1214 |
| William de Humez | 1214 — 1222 |
| Richard de Berkying | 1222 — 1246 |
| Richard de Crokesley | 1246 — 1258 |
| Phillip de Lewisham | 1258 |
| Richard de Ware | 1258 — 1283 |
| Walter de Wenlok | 1283 — 1307 |
| Richard de Kedyngton (alias Sudbury) | 1308 — 1315 |
| William de Curtlyngton | 1315 — 1333 |
| Thomas de Henley | 1333 — 1344 |
| Simon de Bircheston | 1344 — 1349 |
| Simon de Langham | 1349 — 1362 |
| Nicholas de Litlyngton | 1362 — 1386 |
| William de Colchester | 1386 — 1420 |
| Edmund Kyrton | 1440 — 1462 |
| George Norwich | 1463 — 1469 |
| Thomas Millyng | 1469 — 1474 |
| John Esteney | 1474 — 1498 |
| George Fascet | 1498 — 1500 |
| John Islip | 1500 — 1532 |
| William Boston | 1533 — 1540 |
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Bishop intra- Reformation |
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| Thomas Thirlby | 1540 — 1550 |
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Deans intra- Reformation |
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| William Benson (Abbot Boston) | 1540 — 1549 |
| Richard Cox | 1549 — 1553 |
| Hugh Weston | 1553 — 1556 |
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Abbot restored by Mary I of England |
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| John Feckenham | 1556 — 1559 |
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Deans post- Reformation |
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| William Bill | 1560 — 1561 |
| Gabriel Goodman | 1561 — 1601 |
| Lancelot Andrewes | 1601 — 1605 |
| Richard Neile | 1605 — 1610 |
| George Montaigne | 1610 — 1617 |
| Robert Tounson | 1617 — 1620 |
| Ben Williams | 1620 — 1644 |
| Richard Steward (never installed) | 1644 — 1651 |
| John Earle | 1660 — 1662 |
| John Dolben | 1662 — 1683 |
| Thomas Sprat | 1683 — 1713 |
| Francis Atterbury | 1713 — 1723 |
| Samuel Bradford | 1723 — 1731 |
| Joseph Wilcocks | 1731 — 1756 |
| Zachary Pearce | 1756 — 1768 |
| John Thomas | 1768 — 1793 |
| Samuel Horsley | 1793 — 1802 |
| William Vincent | 1802 — 1815 |
| John Ireland | 1816 — 1842 |
| Thomas Turton | 1842 — 1845 |
| Samuel Wilberforce | 1845 |
| William Buckland | 1845 — 1856 |
| Richard Chenevix Trench | 1856 — 1864 |
| Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | 1864 — 1881 |
| George Granville Bradley | 1881 — 1902 |
| Joseph Armitage Robinson | 1902 — 1911 |
| Herbert Edward Ryle | 1911 — 1925 |
| William Foxley Norris | 1925 — 1937 |
| Paul de Labilliere | 1938 — 1946 |
| Alan Don | 1946 — 1959 |
| Eric Symes Abbott, KCVO | 1959 — 1974 |
| Edward Carpenter, KCVO | 1974 — 1985 |
| Michael Mayne, KCVO | 1986 — 1996 |
| (Arthur) Wesley Carr, KCVO | 1997 — 2006 |
| John Robert Hall, | 2007 — |
Gallery
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The west front |
The tomb of King Henry III in the Abbey. |
Rear side view from the nearby London Eye |
Quicktime Virtual Reality Panorama of Westminster Abbey Daytime Quicktime Virtual Reality Panorama of Westminster Abbey. |
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