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• St James the Apostle

  St Peter flag

• 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.

• Abbey hosts 6th Form Conference

  Monday, 3rd October 2011

  The Dean & Chapter of Westminster hosted, for the first time, a Sixth Form Conference attended by 130 students from six schools on Monday 26 September.

  Education Centre King James Bible

• St Philip and St James, apostles

  St Peter flag

• Tudor tomb

  When Charles Dickens died at his home in Kent on 9th June 1870, it was presumed that he would be buried in Rochester Cathedral or in one of the nearby parish churches at Cobham or Shorne. This, after all, was what the author of some of the greatest novels in the English language had wanted.

• Consecration of new Bishop at Westminster Abbey

  The Reverend Prebendary James Grier was ordained and consecrated Bishop of Plymouth in the Diocese of Exeter at a Eucharist at Westminster Abbey.

• Westminster Abbey honour for Lord Callaghan

  Wednesday, 8th July 2015

  A memorial ledger stone to the Right Honourable The Lord Callaghan of Cardiff KG was dedicated in the north-west corner of the nave of Westminster Abbey on Tuesday 7th July 2015.

  James Callaghan Memorial dedication

• Fraternité talk: When the English spoke French

  Thursday, 18th April 2024

  Join James Robinson, Interim Director of Collections at the V&A, to discover the complex and interdependent relationship of England and Continental Europe throughout the Middle Ages.

  Events

• Choir’s new CD celebrates established favourites and new works

  Friday, 9th June 2023

  The Abbey Choir has released a new CD of choral works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir James MacMillan and Sir John Tavener.

  Choir of Westminster Abbey Music

• Spectator reviews new book on the Coronation Chair

  Thursday, 15th August 2013

  A review in The Spectator magazine on The Coronation Chair and the Stone of Scone has given the Coronation Chair “the comprehensive study it deserves” according to James Yorke, former curator in the V&A’s furniture department.

  Coronation Chair

• Crown Prince and Princess of Serbia mark UN World Humanitarian Day

  Friday, 18th August 2023

  Crown Prince and Princess of Serbia mark UN World Humanitarian Day: Their Royal Highnesses The Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Katherine of Serbia attended a wreath laying ceremony at Westminster Abbey.

• Music for the Royal Wedding

  Friday, 29th April 2011

  James O’Donnell, Westminster Abbey’s Organist and Master of the Choristers, offers a special preview of the music that will accompany today’s marriage service of His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales with Miss Catherine Middleton.

  Royal Wedding The Choir of Westminster Abbey

• Concert for Holy Week: Bach - St Matthew Passion

  Tuesday, 26th March 2024

  The Choir of Westminster Abbey is joined by leading period-instrument orchestra St. James' Baroque for this Holy Week performance of Bach’s powerful Matthäus-Passion (St Matthew Passion), sung in German.

  event Holy Week and Easter Easter

• New Abbey Choir CD celebrates neglected Tudor composer

  Friday, 2nd March 2018

  The Abbey Choir celebrates the release of a new CD on Hyperion Records today, Friday 2nd March. Conducted by James O’Donnell, who also plays the organ interludes on the disc, Missa Videte miraculum is a compelling introduction to the work of early Tudor composer Nicholas Ludford (c. 1485 – c. 1557).

  Recording

• Abbey remembers the Fallen

  A Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving on Remembrance Sunday was held at Westminster Abbey on Sunday 11th November 2018.

• King and Queen of the Netherlands visit Abbey

  Tuesday, 23rd October 2018

  The King and Queen of the Netherlands visited Westminster Abbey on 23rd October as part of Their Majesties’ State Visit to Her Majesty The Queen.

  State Visit

• Prince Harry Attends ANZAC Day Service

  HRH Prince Henry of Wales attended a Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving to mark ANZAC Day at Westminster Abbey at Noon on Monday 25th April 2016. The National Anthem was sung.

• Celebrating the Commonwealth

  Celebrating Commonwealth Day, one of the most important dates in the Abbey's year.

• Agnes Hardine

  Agnes Hardine was buried in the nave on 13th August 1720. Her original gravestone was taken up when the nave floor was re-laid.

• Richard Murray

  Sailor

  Captain Richard Murray was buried in the west cloister of Westminster Abbey but has no marker.