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please try to book your entry slot 30 minutes or so before the tour is due to start. Private tour groups of up to 20 can visit the Abbey when accompanied by a Blue Badge Tourist Guide. These are ...
A research trip for my book (on British art, out next year) took me to Westminster Abbey. £27 for an adult ticket! £32 if you visit the museum. The Abbey points out, not unreasonably ...
Westminster Abbey has been home to royal coronations since 1066 For nearly a thousand years, Westminster Abbey in London has played an important role in the British monarchy. The historic ...
He is the dean of Westminster, the abbey’s most senior priest. I had seen him on television in rich, colorful vestments, but here, in the book-lined study of the Deanery, his home within the ...
“When you go to Westminster ... book for this was written—the one that they’re using—[it] goes back to the 13th century. That’s really cool.” Many royal couples have chosen the Abbey ...
Hailed as one of the great architectural masterpieces of our times, Westminster Abbey has seen some sights ... Enshrined in the British history books, so much has happened here.
The Westminster Abbey plaque itself is made from Huddlestone, a cream-colored stone quarried in Yorkshire, the area of northern England where the sisters lived and wrote the books that would ...