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• 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

• Sermon Given at Evensong on the Last Sunday after Trinity 2016

  Sunday, 23rd October 2016

  Sermon given by The Reverend Melusi Francis Sibanda, Rector, St George, Dunsborough, Diocese of Bunbury, Western Australia.

• Paul Dirac

  Scientist, Mathematician and Physicist

  Probably the greatest English physicist since Newton, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was born on 8th August 1902 in Bristol. He was awarded the Nobel Prize.

• Paul Greally

  As Assistant Organist, Paul Greally works alongside the Sub-Organist and Organ Scholar in playing for services in the Abbey, assisting with conducting the Abbey Choir, and with training the choristers. He also coordinates the Abbey’s weekly Sunday Organ Recitals.

• Service of Thanksgiving for the Life and Work of Paul Scofield CH CBE

  Thursday, 19th March 2009

  Paul Scofield (21st January 1922 – 19th March 2008) often described as the “greatest actor in the English speaking world” was remembered at a Thanksgiving Service at St Margaret’s Church on Thursday 19th March at 12 noon.

  Special Service

• Paul Baumann CBE LVO

  Paul Baumann CBE is Chapter Clerk and Receiver General, the most senior lay position at the Abbey and, in effect, the chief executive.

• Festival of Saint Cecilia service held at Westminster Abbey

  Thursday, 25th November 2010

  The Festival of St Cecilia service was held at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday 24th November 2010. The choirs of Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Cathedral came together to sing the premiere of an anthem specially commissioned by the Musicians Benevolent Fund with the help of the RVW Trust: ‘Vast Ocean of Light’, by Jonathan Dove.

  St Cecilia The Choir of Westminster Abbey

• John and Paul Methuen

  Diplomat

  John and Paul Methuen have a joint memorial in the south choir aisle of Westminster Abbey. John was the eldest son of Paul Methuen (d.1667).

• Paul de Labilliere

  Dean

  The ashes of the Right Reverend Paul de Labilliere, Dean of Westminster, and his wife are buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey.

• Recordings

  The Abbey Choir enjoys a recording partnership with Hyperion. Its catalogue includes music for the great feasts, as well as Renaissance masterpieces and twentieth-century classics.

• The Conversion of St Paul

  St Peter flag

• Pioneer of Industrial Revolution Honoured at Abbey

  Friday, 17th October 2014

  A memorial to the 18th century Birmingham industrialist, Matthew Boulton FRS was dedicated in the Chapel of St Paul, Westminster Abbey, on Friday 17th October 2014.

  Memorial dedication Matthew Boulton

• Seminar: Making Deification Real - the Goal of Christian Life in Eastern Christianity

  Monday, 18th November 2024

  Join us for the first of this term’s online seminar talks with Nadia Marais, a Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, an ordained minister in the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa.

• Abbey service for St Oscar Romero

  Saturday, 17th November 2018

  A Solemn Evensong of Thanksgiving for the Canonisation of St Oscar Romero was held at Westminster Abbey on Saturday 17th November 2018.

  Oscar Romero

• Consecration of Bishops takes place at Westminster Abbey

  Friday, 29th September 2023

  The Venerable Adam Atkinson, The Venerable Ian Bishop and The Venerable Paul Davies were all ordained and consecrated at Westminster Abbey on Friday 29th September.

• Musicians celebrated at St Cecilia service

  Wednesday, 23rd November 2022

  A service to Mark the Festival of St Cecilia - the patron saint of music and musicians - was held at Westminster Abbey in conjunction with Help Musicians UK on 23rd November 2022.

• Dean Preaches in New York

  Monday, 13th June 2011

  The Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend Dr John Hall, preached the sermon at Solemn Eucharist on the feast of Pentecost, Sunday 12th June 2011, at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York, a parish church in the episcopal diocese of New York, NY, United States of America.

  Dean of Westminster USA tour

• Abbey welcomes Pope Tawadros

  Thursday, 11th May 2017

  His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, Bishop of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark, was joined by the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, and other representatives of the Church of England, at Evensong at Westminster Abbey on Friday 12th May 2017.

• Abbey mourns the Reverend Jane Sinclair

  The Abbey today mourns the loss of The Reverend Jane Sinclair, former Rector of St Margaret’s and Canon of Westminster, who has died.

• Celebrating St Edward

  In a chapel at the heart of Westminster Abbey is the Shrine of Edward the Confessor, king and saint.