Carried by Dr Tony Trowles, Head of the Abbey Collection and Librarian. Joseph Lewis-Campbell, an Abbey Marshal, read 1 St Peter 2: 4 – 9; and Valerie Humphrey, Director of the Westminster Abbey ...

It was laid down in 1268 by order of Henry III who had started re-building Edward the Confessor's Abbey in the new Gothic style in 1245. The workmen came from Rome, with a man called Odoricus at their ...