Coronations, royal weddings, kings, queens, statesmen and soldiers; poets, heroes and villains – history happens here and it’s all waiting to be discovered.

An architectural masterpiece of the 13th to 16th centuries, Westminster Abbey has become a treasure house of artefacts. This is also the coronation church where some of the most significant people in ...

The effigy head of the founder of the Tudor dynasty is one of the finest examples of its kind to have survived to the present ...

Officially known as the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, it has been a significant site for over a thousand years. The Abbey has played a central role in British history, touching the ...

Officially known as the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, it has been a significant site for over a thousand years. The Abbey has played a central role in British history, touching the ...

The Abbey has been the UK’s coronation church since 1066, and is the final resting place of 17 monarchs. The church we see today was begun by Henry III in 1245 and is one of the most important Gothic ...