It was originally consecrated on 13th October 1269. The present wooden altar table, normally covered by an embroidered frontal, and reredos above it were designed by the Abbey Surveyor Sir George ...

Dimensions: 213 x 110 cms. The ancient sedilia (seats for the priests during Mass) to the south of the Abbey's High Altar were erected in the reign of Edward I, when Walter de Wenlok was Abbot of ...

The Queen has toured the site of a new building at Westminster ... monks kept vestments, altar linens and other artefacts needed for their daily worship, allowing the Abbey itself to be preserved ...