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 ...

Enjoy a peaceful, self-guided visit to Westminster Abbey after hours, with time and space to explore at your own pace. Experience Westminster Abbey in a quieter light during our special Wednesday late ...

Simon Preston CBE, who was Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey from 1981 to 1987, and Sub-Organist between 1962 and 1967, has died aged 83. Born in Bournemouth, Preston attended ...

His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent today attended a service of Thanksgiving to mark 200 years of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). The Duke, the charity’s President, was joined in the ...

HRH The Princess of Wales will return to Westminster Abbey to host her fourth annual Together at Christmas carol service on Friday 6th December. A joyful celebration of Christmas, this year’s service ...

James O’Donnell, Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey, has been appointed as Professor in the Yale School of Music and Yale Institute of Sacred Music. He will leave the Abbey ...

Vicars live in Vicarages, Rectors live in Rectories and Deans live in Deaneries. This is important; it assures us we have put them in their place. It helps us keep an eye on them. Not here however, no ...

His Majesty The King was represented by Admiral Sir Anthony Radakin at a Service of Thanksgiving for former Admiral of the Fleet The Lord Boyce at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 13th July 2023. HRH ...

The Reverend Dr James Hawkey has been appointed by the Crown to the Canonry of Westminster to be made vacant through the retirement of the Reverend Professor Vernon White in September. James Hawkey, a ...

A medieval silk seal bag dating from the reign of King Henry III has gone on public display for the first time in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries at Westminster Abbey following the discovery by ...

Westminster Abbey is the burial place of Edward the Confessor, England's best-known royal saint. His body lies in a magnificent shrine at the heart of the Abbey as its major relic. But the medieval ...