HRH The Princess of Wales will return to Westminster Abbey to host her fifth annual Together at Christmas carol service on ...

Why can’t I watch this video? You are unable to view this content as it is hosted by a third-party. In order to watch this video we need your permission to use marketing cookies.

to the glory of your name. Laudamus te, benedicimus te, adoramus te, glorificamus te, gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam, Domine Deus, Rex caelestis, Deus Pater omnipotens. Domine Fili ...

A service to Mark the Festival of St Cecilia - the patron saint of music and musicians - was held at Westminster Abbey in conjunction with Help Musicians UK on Wednesday 19th November 2025. The ...

Everyone is welcome at these services, free of charge. Security checks are in place upon entry. It’s a privilege to live and work here – the Abbey really is the heart of the country and its history.

If I were to try to sum up Advent in one word, it would have to be ‘bracing’. The main themes of this short season could ...

Westminster Abbey has very little medieval glass now remaining but there are good examples of glass from the 18th century to the present day. In the windows at the west end of the aisles of the nave ...

Join us for the annual Festival of St Cecilia, featuring the combined choirs of St Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey.

Why can’t I watch this video? You are unable to view this content as it is hosted by a third-party. In order to watch this video we need your permission to use marketing cookies. Please accept ...

From the late 13th century onwards funeral effigies of monarchs and other royal persons were carried in a funeral procession on the coffin beneath a canopy. The effigy was generally close to the ...

Neile, Dolben, Sprat, Atterbury, Bradford, Wilcocks, Pearce, Thomas and Horsley were also Bishops of Rochester at the same time as they were Dean. As Rochester was an impoverished diocese holding it ...

The Cloisters were one of the busiest parts of the Abbey where the monks spent much of their time. A fire in 1298 damaged much of the area of the cloisters of the Norman church so they had to be ...