Enjoy and experience regular and special services from Westminster Abbey from wherever you are in the world - either live or on demand. You are unable to view this content as it is hosted by a ...

BBC Radio 3's Choral Evensong programme celebrated its 100th anniversary with a special broadcast live from the Abbey on Wednesday 7 October. The service was sung by The Choir of Westminster Abbey ...

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 choral Evensong most of the ...

Our annual Pilgrimage day gives you the opportunity to visit the Abbey and experience its beauty in an atmosphere characterised by prayer. Walk a pilgrimage path through the Abbey, tracing the life ...

In the north west tower chapel in the nave of Westminster Abbey is a free standing white marble statue to Captain James Montagu. An over-life-size figure of James in naval uniform stands on a pedestal ...

He was born between 1340 and 1343, son of John Chaucer, a London vintner, and Agnes (Copton). Geoffrey began his career in the service of Lionel, third son of King Edward III, and held various offices ...

Coronations, royal weddings, kings, queens, statesmen and soldiers; poets, heroes and villains – history happens here and it’s all waiting to be discovered.

King George V, second son of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, was born in 1865 and served in the Royal Navy until 1892 when he became heir to the throne following the death of his elder brother, ...

Richard, the 'Lionheart', was born on 8th September 1157 at Oxford, son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He joined the Third Crusade to the Holy Land but returned to England when he heard of his ...

A memorial for Robert Hooke, one of the most brilliant and versatile of English scientists, was unveiled on 3rd March 2005 at Westminster Abbey. The stone is in the lantern area, near the grave of Dr ...

J.R.R. Tolkien, writer, artist, scholar and linguist is to be honoured in Westminster Abbey in Poets’ Corner alongside his close friend and fellow writer, C.S. Lewis. A major new memorial celebrating ...