westminster abbey in English

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the collegiate church of St. Peter in Westminster, London, originally the abbey church of a Benedictine monastery. Nearly all the kings and queens of England have been crowned in Westminster Abbey; it is also the burial place of many of England's monarchs and other leading figures.

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1. London’s Westminster Abbey has recently introduced this newly embroidered altar cloth.

2. 19 The funeral of Queen Elizabeth I took place at Westminster Abbey.

3. He was buried in Westminster Abbey "without any manner of pomp" on 14 February.

4. The Coronation of Elizabeth II took place on 2 June 1953 at Westminster Abbey, London

5. On Christmas Day 1066, William, later known as the Conqueror, was crowned in London’s Westminster Abbey.

6. WOLFF The building seats 1,400 persons, and a Canonry of Westminster Abbey is attached to the living

7. Making a slow return, he reached England in 1274 and was crowned at Westminster Abbey on 19 August.

8. George IV decided, nonetheless, to exclude his wife from his coronation at Westminster Abbey, on 19 July 1821.

9. "Getting personal" He ended his tour at Westminster Abbey where he publicly shook hands with a Clergywoman,

10. Edward I's body was brought south, lying in state at Waltham Abbey, before being buried in Westminster Abbey on 27 October.

11. Criterion (i): Westminster Abbey is a unique artistic construction representing a striking sequence of the successive phases of English Gothic art.

12. There were sights to be seen nowhere else in the world —Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey and Saint Paul’s Cathedral!

13. The commission refused to allow Charles's burial at Westminster Abbey, so his body was conveyed to Windsor on the night of 7 February.

14. They also mingle with crowds at social events and with tourists at such well-known attractions as the Tower of London and Westminster Abbey.

15. The King was involved in the original construction and improvement of several significant buildings, including Nonsuch Palace, King's College Chapel, Cambridge and Westminster Abbey in London.

16. He was buried with great ceremony, with an elaborate funeral at Westminster Abbey based on that of James I, his daughter Elizabeth also being buried there.

17. This collection of hand cut Crystalware is a truly precious collection featuring unique whisky glasses, tot glasses, a decanter and wine glass cut with the Westminster Abbey crest.

18. In the meantime we proceed with the _locale_ of Caxton's house, situate on the south-west of Westminster Abbey, where was formerly the eleemosynary, or Almonry, where …

19. In 1882, Darwin was even buried among kings in Westminster Abbey, by special arrangement with the Anglican dean of that abbey! —Compare Acts 20:30; 2 Timothy 4:3.

20. Instead, Cromwell was ceremonially re-installed as Lord Protector on 26 June 1657 at Westminster Hall, sitting upon King Edward's Chair, which was moved specially from Westminster Abbey for the occasion.

21. Although Mary's will stated that she wished to be buried next to her mother, she was interred in Westminster Abbey on 14 December, in a tomb she would eventually share with Elizabeth.

22. Four years after their discovery, the bones were placed in an urn and, on the orders of King Charles II, interred in Westminster Abbey, in the wall of the Henry VII Lady Chapel.

23. The clerical bouncer, whom we now know to be called Ben Sheward, was still wearing his cassock when he Cartwheeled down the central aisle of Westminster Abbey, shortly after the guests had dispersed

24. They married on 26 April , 1923 , at Westminster Abbey . Elizabeth laid her bouquet at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior on her way into the Abbey, a gesture which every royal bride since has copied, though they chose to do this on the way back from the altar rather than to it.