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  • History

    Westminster Abbey is a treasure house of paintings, stained glass, pavements, textiles and artefacts – and is also where some significant people are buried or commemorated.

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  • Famous people / organisations

    Find out about the 3,300 people buried and others commemorated at Westminster Abbey, many of them among the most significant in the nation's history.

  • Order of the Bath

    The Most Honourable Order of the Bath was established as a military order by George I on 18th May 1725. Since then the Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey has been used as their chapel.

  • RAF Chapel

    At the eastern end of the Lady Chapel is the Royal Air Force chapel dedicated to the men who died in the Battle of Britain in 1940.

  • Abbots & Deans

    List of Abbots of the monastery and Deans of the Collegiate Church.

  • Poets’ Corner

    Poets’ Corner is a place of pilgrimage for literature lovers. Over 100 poets and writers are buried or have memorials, including Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens.

  • Modern Martyrs

    Above the Abbey's Great West Door stand ten statues to modern martyrs - Christians who gave up their lives for their beliefs.

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