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• Access, facilities and FAQ

  We want your visit to the Abbey to be safe and enjoyable, so offer some useful tips to help you prepare for your visit.

• Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa)

  Writer and Abolitionist

  In St Margaret's is a memorial tablet to author and slave abolitionist Olaudah Equiano who was baptised Gustavus Vassa in that church when a slave.

• Fraternité concert: Olivier Latry

  Thursday, 11th April 2024

  Olivier Latry, world renowned titular organist of Notre Dame de Paris, plays a fabulous programme of works by French composers.

  Music

• Lunchtime concert: St Margaret's Consort

  Wednesday, 12th June 2024

  A musical journey through 500 years of English history.  

  Events

• Voice and Verse Lunchtime Concert

  Wednesday, 23rd October 2024

  The St Margaret's Consort sings a programme of music inspired by the poetry of writers memorialised in Poets' Corner.

  Voice and Verse

• A Reflection on time

  Friday, 3rd April 2020

  I came to Westminster just months ago, installed as the 39th Dean on 16th November. A new boy, with west country ways, they had to bring me up to speed quickly.

  Friday Reflection COVID-19

• Lunchtime Talk: A Stonemason’s Guide to Britain’s Churches

  Wednesday, 8th January 2025

  Andrew Ziminski explores the often-overlooked features and furnishings that await discovery in our Parish Churches.

• Lunchtime Talk: Women Poets

  Wednesday, 9th October 2024

  Professor Helen Hackett explores the lives and works of several women poets, considering why only some of them have been memorialised in Westminster Abbey.

• Lunchtime Talk: First World War Poets

  Wednesday, 13th November 2024

  Join Max Egremont as he discusses the work and legacies of Britain's First World War poets.

• Lunchtime Talk: The Tudors, Faith, Family and Fortune

  Wednesday, 11th December 2024

  Leanda de Lisle considers the role of religion in the dramatic story of the Tudor succession and explores the faith of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I.

• Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester

  Eleanor de Bohun was a daughter and co-heir of Humphrey, Earl of Hereford, Essex and Northampton and has a fine brass in Westminster Abbey.

• John Howard, Earl of Stafford & family

  In the chapel of St Edmund is a marble monument to John Paul Howard, 4th Earl of Stafford. The monument is by Robert Chambers.