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Toby Melville / Reuters
Westminster Abbey is the Gothic church where Prince William and Kate Middleton have planned to marry. It is a national shrine, the site of royal coronations since the 11th century and the final resting place for British heroes, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Admiral Robert Blake, Rudyard Kipling, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Laurence Olivier. For a compelling glimpse inside the church and its 1,000 years of history, click here.
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This place is amazing! I hope to see it some day soon.
I enjoyed a visit to Westminster Abbey in 2005. It is a most amazing place. Poets corner is especially heartwarming. A most beautiful building and a most beautiful experience.
exicted for the royal wedding
I visited Wesminster Abbey on both of my trips to London. It's very overwhelming and I had to see it
twice. It was pretty heady "stuff" for a kid that grew up in the rust-belt in Ohio to be standing in such
a historic place. This is something you see in pictures & study in school.
I go there all the time.
My wife and I saw this beautiful Church in 1983 while on a guided BMW motorcycle tour of 8 countries in Europe. It truly is a amazing structure and I would love to see it again!
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I see beautiful churches like this, and then I think of the hideous utilitarian structures that pass for churches today, and I want to cry.
Spent my 50th Birthday there on Easter Sunday this year! Outstanding!
it is fantastic, I wonder how man poor souls suffered in order to create the thing, read the disgusting english history
A marvelous structure maintained well over the centuries
I have been there many times. I have an ancester who has a seat in the Lords chamber known as St. Edwards Chapel where the coronation throne sits. The chair upon which the new monarch is crowned sits on top of a stone from Scotland:
King Edward's Chair, sometimes known as St Edward's Chair or The Coronation Chair, is the throne on which the British monarch sits for the coronation. It was commissioned in 1296 by King Edward I to contain the coronation stone of Scotland — known as the Stone of Scone — which he had captured from the Scots who had kept it at Scone Abbey. The chair was named after England's only canonised king, Edward the Confessor, and was kept in his shrine of St Edward's Chapel at Westminster Abbey.
Westminister Abbey along with Canterbury are the most incredible places I can think ofto visit and get a sense of the anciet world of western history.
Very few things that represent humans kind greatest achievements are created without sacrifice of life. Our appreciation for them should also understand the risk and price paid for such monuments. From the Great Wall of China to the Pyramids to the Roman Colosseum these treasures of mankind are paid for with human blood, sweat and tears.
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