Westminster Abbey is the final resting place of 30 kings and queens starting with King Edward the Confessor whose magnificent shrine stands just behind the High Altar. Henry III, who built the church ...

An architectural masterpiece of the 13th to 16th centuries, Westminster Abbey also presents a unique pageant of British history – the shrine of St Edward the Confessor, the tombs of kings and queens, ...

With a history which stretches all the way back to the 10th century, Westminster ... The abbey hasn’t always looked as we know it today. It used to be a humble monastery. In the 1040s, King ...

was seized by King Edward I and built into a throne at Westminster Abbey in 1296. Also known as the Stone of Scone, it was returned to Scotland in 1996. The Queen sat above the stone when she was ...

Sir Antonio Pappano will conduct the coronation service at Westminster Abbey, overseeing a programme of music personally selected by King Charles III. The service will include 12 new commissions ...

The Queen has toured the site of a new building at Westminster Abbey which aims to transform ... of the £13 million project ...

Paul's Cathedral is arguably the second must-see church in London (the first, of course, being Westminster Abbey). With its imposing ... in Europe), where the tombs of notable figures such as ...