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Westminster Abbey to display a memorial to J.R.R. Tolkien

Westminster Abbey’s Poets' Corner will get a new resident next year, when a memorial to J.R.R. Tolkien is unveiled to mark the 90th anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit.Rea...

Tests reveal Roman coffin at Westminster Abbey may hold medieval abbot

Excavations at Westminster Abbey have unveiled a medieval abbot's remains within an ancient Roman coffin, dated to the time between AD 987 and 1052. Notable candidates for the iden...

Tickets Alert: Tours of Westminster School

Hidden away behind Westminster Abbey is a 465-year-old private school that increasingly allows the public to tour its buildings and grounds. Read more ›

Roman coffin, Saxon bones: Fresh clues to Westminster Abbey mystery

The bones found inside a Roman stone coffin may belong to Aelfwig, an abbot of Westminster who died around 1020.Read more ›

Where is King Harold buried? A visit to Waltham Abbey’s royal grave

Almost 950 years after the Battle of Hastings, no one knows for certain what happened to King Harold’s body — but Waltham Abbey has a compelling claim to be his final resting place...

Westminster Abbey plans memorial to JRR Tolkien

The memorial will go next to that of his friend CS Lewis.

England - aerial view of Houses of Parliament, Big Ben Westminster Abbey and Whitehall, London (559)

Postcard England - aerial view of Houses of Parliament, Big Ben Westminster Abbey and Whitehall, London 

Catholic author JRR Tolkien to be honored at Westminster Abbey

A new memorial at Westminster Abbey pays tribute to J.R.R. Tolkien, who described his famous fictional series 'The Lord of the Rings' as 'a fundamentally religious and Catholic wor...

Gatehouse School / St James-the-Less School

To the Glory of God this stone was laid by the Lord Bishop of London on Saturday 29th July 1899.So I prayed to the God of Heaven and the wall was built. Nehemiah 2:20. J. E. Watts...

J.R.R. Tolkien to be honoured in with display memorial in London

J.R.R. Tolkien is to be honoured with a new memorial in Poets’ Corner, in Westminster Abbey.

Bayeux Tapestry’s lost ending reimagined for Westminster Abbey exhibition

Coinciding with the final few months of the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition in the British Museum, Westminster Abbey will display what the final missing panel might have looked like.Rea...

Visit a church: St Mary’s Northolt

This truly ancient church is one of the oldest in London, and although it is only open for services, it is still worth a wander around the outside.Read more ›

Tests reveal Roman coffin at Westminster Abbey may hold medieval abbot

Roman Sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey Likely Held Remains of Medieval Monk

LONDON, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by Taylor & Francis, human remains found in a […] The post Roman Sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey Likely Held Remains of Medie...

Tickets Alert: Westminster Cathedral’s light show extended to January

The light show filling Westminster Cathedral this summer is being extended until the end of next January, with a new Christmas display starting in late November.Read more ›

Westminster Abbey’s Roman sarcophagus mystery remains have been identified!

If you’re like me, you’ve been waiting with bated breath to find out just who is inside the Roman sarcophagus inscribed as carrying Valerius Amandinus that was unearthed at Westmin...