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HISTORY
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HISTORY

The complex was home to a Benedictine abbey for five hundred years, and its name still contains the word "abbey" to this day. The building dates back to 1045, when Edward the Confessor chose...
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INTERIOR
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INTERIOR

To properly see the interior of Westminster Abbey you have to go through it twice: first to admire the Gothic architecture built in the 1200s and 1300s, and then again to browse the tombs of the...
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TOMBS
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TOMBS

After walking the length of the right nave, you'll reach the transept, where great Anglo-Saxon men have been buried or commemorated with monuments since as far back as the 1400s. The so-called...
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CONVENT
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CONVENT

Your tour of Westminster Abbey continues in the convent rooms. As you may recall, when the Church of England was established in the mid-sixteenth century King Henry VIII closed all the convents in...
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