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...
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...
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...
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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