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• Order of the Bath

  The Most Honourable Order of the Bath was established as a military order by George I on 18th May 1725. Since then the Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey has been used as their chapel.

  Notable people

• Royal tombs

  Westminster Abbey is the final resting place of many kings and queens, starting with King Edward the Confessor whose shrine stands just behind the High Altar.

  Royalty

• The Abbey and the Royal Family

  British kings and queens have forged a strong bond with Westminster Abbey. Since 1066 every British monarch, except two, has been crowned here.

• Charles Gore Lecture 2023

  Friday, 3rd March 2023

  Ahead of the coronation of His Majesty The King in Westminster Abbey in May this year, The Reverend Dr James Hawkey reflects on A Theology of Monarchy for the 21st Century.

  Coronations

• Sermon preached at the First Eucharist of Christmas 2023

  Sunday, 24th December 2023

  Sermon preached at the First Eucharist of Christmas 2023: The Incarnation of Jesus Christ is not a myth. It’s a very particular sound-world. At Christmas, in the villages surrounding Rome, you can.

• Sermon Christmas Day 2023

  Monday, 25th December 2023

  Sermon Christmas Day 2023: In the beginning was the Word. Now, I need some room, some leeway. this morning. Perhaps, and please, you might be patient? I do know it is Christmas.

• Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on Ash Wednesday 2023

  Wednesday, 22nd February 2023

  Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on Ash Wednesday 2023: We do not easily use the words provided. Working somewhere else I used to sit next to a thoughtful devout Catholic in.

• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Seventh Sunday after Trinity 2024

  Sunday, 14th July 2024

  Until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

• Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on the Ninth Sunday after Trinity

  Sunday, 28th July 2024

  The feeding of the five-thousand.

• Sermon given at the Sung Eucharist on the Fourth Sunday of Advent 2017

  Sunday, 24th December 2017

  Sermon given by The Reverend Mark Birch, Minor Canon and Sacrist.

• Sermon at the Festival Eucharist on the National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor

  Saturday, 17th October 2020

  Sermon at the Festival Eucharist on the National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor: Holiness is not an idea, or an aspiration. Holiness is bones and flesh, a life.