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    Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England...
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  • individuals buried in Westminster Abbey has a long tradition. Over 3,300 people are buried or commemorated in the abbey. For much of the abbey's history, most...
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    many famous landmarks, including the Palace of Westminster, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral, Trafalgar Square and much of the...
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    of Westminster was historically a separate urban area to the west of London, growing up around the minster church of Westminster Abbey. Westminster was...
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  • Westminster Abbey Choir School is a boarding preparatory school for boys in Westminster, London and the only remaining choir school in the United Kingdom...
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    The Church of St Margaret, Westminster Abbey is in the grounds of Westminster Abbey on Parliament Square, London, England. It is dedicated to Margaret...
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  • Look up Westminster Abbey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Westminster Abbey is a large Anglican church in Westminster, London, where the British monarchs...
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  • Westminster School is a public school in Westminster, London, England, in the precincts of Westminster Abbey. It descends from a charity school founded...
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    Poets' Corner is a section of the southern transept of Westminster Abbey in London, where many poets, playwrights, and writers are buried or commemorated...
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  • Westminster Abbey by-election 1924 Westminster Abbey by-election 1932 Westminster Abbey by-election 1939 Westminster Abbey by-election This disambiguation...
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    The Dean of Westminster is the head of the chapter at Westminster Abbey. Due to the abbey's status as a royal peculiar, the dean answers directly to the...
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    and Worcester. Shrewsbury Abbey in Shropshire was founded as a Benedictine monastery by the Normans in 1083. Westminster Abbey was founded in the tenth...
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    Edward the Confessor (category Burials at Westminster Abbey)
    2008. Walker 2004. Williams 2004c. Aird 2004. "History of Westminster Abbey". Westminster Abbey. Archived from the original on 14 February 2014. Retrieved...
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    Edward I of England took the stone as spoils of war and removed it to Westminster Abbey, where it was fitted into a wooden chair – known as the Coronation...
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  • The Westminster Abbey Museum was located in the 11th-century vaulted undercroft beneath the former monks' dormitory in Westminster Abbey, London, England...
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    Cornelius Cure was commissioned to produce the monument to Mary in Westminster Abbey. He was paid for supplying "touchstone and rauncestone", two kinds...
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    monastery in London dedicated to St Peter at the site of the present Westminster Abbey, and that they had been buried in the church there. In the reign of...
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    and the Household Division. Conveyance of the body from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey. For this procession the State Gun Carriage was hauled by...
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    Sanctuary next to the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre and facing Westminster Abbey. Methodist Central Hall was erected by Wesleyan Methodists as one...
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    Tower of London; the site featuring the Palace of Westminster, Church of St. Margaret, and Westminster Abbey; and the historic settlement in Greenwich where...
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  • Thorney Island, site of Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster, and ribbon development heading west - towards Westminster - from gates in the walls...
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    since Winston Churchill's in 1965. A funeral service was held at Westminster Abbey, followed by a procession to Wellington Arch which featured around...
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    ceremony in which they are formally invested with regalia and crowned at Westminster Abbey. It corresponds to the coronations that formerly took place in other...
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  • was founded in 1943 in the precincts of Westminster School in Little Dean's Yard, just behind Westminster Abbey. In 1951 the Under School relocated to...
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  • This is a list of Westminster Abbey organists, containing the names of the musicians who have been appointed an organist, sub-organist, assistant organist...
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    Death and funeral of Mary I of England (category Westminster Abbey)
    James's Palace in London. She was 42 years old. Mary was buried in Westminster Abbey on 14 December. According to Jane Dormer, Mary came to London from...
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    Peace Concluded in the Carnatic — Epitaph by the East India Company, Westminster Abbey He seems to have entered the army in 1727 and served in Gibraltar...
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  • Confessor, the penultimate Anglo-Saxon king, began the building of Westminster Abbey and a neighbouring palace to oversee its construction. After the Norman...
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    a saint in the 12th century. The sacred holy relics were kept at Westminster Abbey, venue of coronations since 1066, while monarchs wore another set...
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    far eastern end of Westminster Abbey, England, paid for by the will of King Henry VII. It is separated from the rest of the abbey by brass gates and a...
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