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Reflection: First Sunday of Christmas
Monday, 1st January 0001
Watch or read the full reflection from the First Sunday of Christmas, The dawn of a new year
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Reflection: Fifth Sunday of Lent
Monday, 1st January 0001
Read or listen to the reflection for the Fifth Sunday of Lent 2024.
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Abbey Sub-Dean appointed Dean of Durham
Thursday, 17th December 2015
The Venerable Andrew Tremlett, Sub-Dean of Westminster and Rector of St Margaret's Church, has been appointed Dean of Durham. He will take up his new post at Durham Cathedral in the summer. He succeeds the Very Reverend Michael Sadgrove who retired in September.
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Canaletto painting of the Abbey goes on display
Monday, 2nd March 2020
A Canaletto painting of Westminster Abbey rarely seen in public goes on display in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries this week until autumn 2020.
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Tricia Hillas inaugurated as Speaker’s Chaplain
The Reverend Tricia Hillas was inaugurated as Chaplain to The Speaker of the House of Commons in a service in St Margaret's Church, Westminster today.
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A Reflection on history
Friday, 12th June 2020
I have been watching the film of Edward Colston’s statue emerging from Bristol’s Floating Harbour. The statue stood on the city centre Watershed, perhaps five hundred metres from Bristol Cathedral.
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Canon Anthony Ball appointed Assistant Bishop in Egypt
Monday, 1st November 2021
Canon Anthony Ball has been appointed an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Egypt, with responsibilities across the new Episcopal/Anglican Province of Alexandria.
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Sermon Given at Matins on the First Sunday of Lent 2016
Sunday, 14th February 2016
Sermon given by The Venerable Andrew Tremlett, Canon in Residence.
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Sermon Given at Matins on the Third Sunday after Trinity 2016
Sunday, 12th June 2016
Sermon given by The Venerable Andrew Tremlett, Canon in Residence.
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Sermon given at Midnight Mass, Christmas 2019
Tuesday, 24th December 2019
It is my first Christmas in the Abbey, I have been here a month. Kind people keep asking me if I am looking forward to my first Christmas here.
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Sermon at Evensong on the First Sunday after Trinity 2021
Sunday, 6th June 2021
Sermon at Evensong on the First Sunday after Trinity 2021: How is your soul? It would have been a tough job description; who could have sustained this calling? When God called Jeremiah,.
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Sermon preached at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday before Advent 2023
Sunday, 5th November 2023
Sermon preached at Evensong on the Fourth Sunday before Advent 2023: Naming God When I was interviewing potential undergraduate students to study theology, I would quite often ask them ‘How useful is.
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Zachary Macaulay
Statesman and Abolitionist
Zachary Macaulay has a life size bust in the nave. He was a member of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
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George Herbert
Poet
In St George's chapel in Westminster Abbey is a two light stained glass window to the memory of poets George Herbert and William Cowper.
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Maurice Pickering
Philanthropist
Maurice Pickering was buried in St Margaret's churchyard on 30th June 1604. This is the area now grassed over between this church and Westminster Abbey.
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Ein kurzer geschichtlicher Überblick der Westminster Abbey
Die Westminster Abbey ist seit dem Jahr 1066, als Wilhelm der Eroberer König wurde, Krönungskirche. In der Abbey haben zudem zahlreiche königliche Hochzeiten und Begräbnisse, nationale Feierlichkeiten und Gedenkfeiern stattgefunden.
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Special Service remembers Armenian Martyrs of 1915
Wednesday, 28th October 2015
HRH The Prince of Wales, His Excellency Serzh Sargsyan, the President of the Republic of Armenia and His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, attended a Special Service to celebrate the lives of the newly-sainted Armenian Martyrs of 1915 at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday 28th October 2015.
Special Service Royal Visit HRH The Prince of Wales Armenian Martyrs
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New Canon Steward Appointed
Wednesday, 25th May 2016
The Reverend Canon Anthony Ball has been appointed by the Crown to the Canonry of Westminster vacant through the appointment of the Venerable Andrew Tremlett as Dean of Durham.
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Her Majesty The Queen attends Abbey Somme Service
Thursday, 30th June 2016
Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh attended a Service and Vigil on the Eve of the Centenary of the Battle of the Somme at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 30th June 2016.
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See Abbey in unprecedented detail with online tour
Thursday, 7th July 2016
It is one of the world's great churches, with a history stretching back over a thousand years. Now, for the first time, visitors from around the world can take a virtual tour inside Westminster Abbey using Google Street View.