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Hace 5 días · Key Takeaways. Westminster Abbey to get a new £13m entrance lobby near the Great West door, named after King Charles. Construction to begin in 2024 and finish in 2026, with the King expected to attend the groundbreaking ceremony. The new lobby will provide a more prestigious entrance for visitors and offer an immediate view of the nave.
Hace 4 días · Welcome to Westminster Abbey. Daily prayer has been offered in this place for over a thousand years, and your participation in today's service is warmly welcomed. At choral Evensong most of the service is sung by the choir on our behalf. We participate through our presence and our listening, that the words and the music might become a prayer ...
Hace 1 día · Westminster Cathedral boasts one of the world’s greatest choirs, internationally renowned for polyphony and plainchant. With an extensive recorded repertoire, the choir performs in venues across the world, but its focus remains the singing of Mass and Daily Vespers in the Cathedral. Join us and discover our rich musical tradition.
Hace 4 días · In the time of Nicholas Culpepper, the author of the well-known "Herbal," these fields were famous for their parsley. In 1651 (August 25th) "the trained bands of London, Westminster," &c., to the number of 14,000, we are told, "drew out into Tuttle Fields." Here, too, were built the "Five Houses," or "Seven Chimneys," as pest-houses for victims ...
Hace 3 días · I enjoyed walking around the Abbey and seeing all of the beautiful stone statues commemorating the different people buried under the Abbey and a few key people stood out to me. While it isn’t as grand as Saint Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey is a beautiful building with lots of interesting architecture inside.
Hace 1 día · Edward was buried in the Henry VII Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey on 8 August 1553, with reformed rites performed by Thomas Cranmer. The procession was led by "a grett company of chylderyn in ther surples" and watched by Londoners "wepyng and lamenting"; the funeral chariot, draped in cloth of gold, was topped by an effigy of Edward, with crown, sceptre, and garter. [183]
Hace 1 día · I sat for some time lost in that kind of reverie which a strain of music is apt sometimes to inspire: the shadows of evening were gradually thickening round me; the monuments began to cast deeper and deeper gloom; and the distant clock again gave token of the slowly waning day. I rose and prepared to leave the abbey.
