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• The Queen Elizabeth II window

  David Hockney’s stained glass window in Westminster Abbey is a vibrantly-coloured contemporary work commissioned to celebrate the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.

  Art Royalty

• Fraternité Family Fun: Rose window making

  Tuesday, 13th February 2024

  Get inspired by the beautiful rose windows of Westminster Abbey and Notre Dame de Paris and make your very own.

  Event Family Learning

• Stained Glass

  Westminster Abbey has very little medieval glass now remaining but there are good examples of glass from the 18th century to the present day.

• Statesmen’s Aisle

  The north transept of Westminster Abbey is known as Statesmen's Aisle due to the many memorials there to politicians.

• The Queen's Window by David Hockney is revealed

  Wednesday, 26th September 2018

  Westminster Abbey will today unveil a new stained glass window designed by David Hockney and commissioned to celebrate the reign of Her Majesty The Queen.

  David Hockney HM The Queen stained glass window

• Architecture

  The present Abbey building dates mainly from the reign of Henry III. In 1245 he pulled down the eastern part of the 11th century Abbey.

  Architecture

• History of Westminster Abbey

  An architectural masterpiece of the 13th to 16th centuries, Westminster Abbey houses tombs and memorials to kings and queens and the famous and the great.

  Christianity

• Chapter House

  The "incomparable" 13th century Chapter House in the East Cloister was a daily meeting place for the monks and contains many mural paintings.

• Jerusalem Chamber

  The Jerusalem Chamber is a medieval room with an original roof and historic tapestries woven in France. King Henry IV died here in 1413.

• Sermon at the Evening Service on Easter Day 2018

  Sunday, 1st April 2018

  Sermon given by The Reverend Dr Tony Kyriakides, Priest Vicar.

• Sermon at a Sung Eucharist of Thanksgiving at St Margaret's Church

  Saturday, 31st October 2020

  Sermon at a Sung Eucharist of Thanksgiving at St Margaret's Church: There is a file full of letters on my desk. Some of them, probably, written by people now sitting here.

• Dedication of The Queen's Window by David Hockney

  Tuesday, 2nd October 2018

  The Queen’s Window, a new stained-glass window by David Hockney celebrating the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, was dedicated at a service this morning.

• Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on Easter Day 2019

  Sunday, 21st April 2019

  Sermon at the Sung Eucharist on Easter Day 2019: Now we enter fully into the joy of the risen Lord. Many of us have journeyed in a particular way with Jesus Christ.

  Easter Day

• Lady Chapel

  The 16th-century historian John Leland called the Henry VII Lady Chapel ‘the wonder of the world’ and it continues to inspire wonder amongst visitors today.

• 25th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 6th May 2010

  Delivered by The Right Reverend the Lord Harries of Pentregarth FKC, Former Bishop of Oxford, Gresham Professor of Divinity, and Honorary Professor of Theology at King's College London.

• 19th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 27th May 2004

  Delivered by Father Timothy Radcliffe OP at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 27th May 2004 and subsequently at Keble College, Oxford.

• 2nd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 21st May 1987

  Delivered by The Rt Revd Simeon Nkoane CR, Assistant Bishop of Johannesburg at King's College London.

• Cheyneygates

  These are two rooms over the entrance to the cloisters, originally part of Nicholas Litlyngton's rebuilding of the Abbot's house complex in the 14th century.

• The Nave

  The Nave is at the western end of the Abbey and contains the graves and memorials of many famous people.

• RAF Chapel

  At the eastern end of the Lady Chapel is the Royal Air Force chapel dedicated to the men who died in the Battle of Britain in 1940.

  Notable people