Welcome to Westminster Abbey. Daily prayer has been offered in this place for over a thousand years, and your participation in today's service is warmly welcomed. The service always includes one or ...

John Gregory, Westminster Abbey carpenter, was buried in the south cloister of the Abbey on 24th February 1704 aged 47. His wife was Elizabeth Gray and they married in 1687. In 1690 he took a lease ...

In the west aisle of the north transept of Westminster Abbey is a memorial to philanthropist Jonas Hanway. This shows a relief of Britannia distributing clothing to boys destined for service at sea, a ...

In Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey is a monument of alabaster and black marble to poet Michael Drayton (or Draiton). The monument is by sculptor Edward Marshall and was erected by the Countess of ...

Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, was buried, at the expense of Elizabeth I, in the south aisle of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey, in the same grave as her son Charles. She was born on ...

A record was made of the inscription plate on her coffin which read: The body of the most illustrious Lady Elizabeth late wife of the Rt.Hon. Lord John Claypole, Master of the Horse, and second ...

William Strode (or Stroud), politician, was a son of Sir William Strode (died 1637) and his first wife Mary (Southcote). He was baptised on 6th November 1594 at Bovey Tracy in Devon. His brother was ...

A small gilt bronze statuette (or weeper) of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, can be seen on the tomb of his father Edward III in Westminster Abbey. His enamelled shield is shown below. Originally there were ...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, died on 6th October 1892 at his home in Haslemere, Surrey. On 11th October the coffin was brought to Westminster Abbey and lay overnight in St Faith's chapel ...

On 19th October 1926 Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII), unveiled a memorial in Westminster Abbey to the Million Dead of the First World War. It was presented to the Abbey by the Imperial War ...

Mary, Queen of Scots was reburied in Westminster Abbey in 1612. Who is Mary, Queen of Scots? Mary, Queen of Scots was born in 1542, daughter of King James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise. Her father ...

In the chapel of St Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey is a small tomb with a black marble slab for Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VII and his queen Elizabeth of York. It now stands near Henry ...