| The visit to Westminster Abbey was awesome. We were not allowed to photograph inside the Abbey, so the interior pictures are scanned images. The detail in the Abbey is exquisite.
Some History of Westminster Abbey At least one medieval legend places the foundation of the Abbey in the seventh century. Around AD 960, the Bishop of London, St. Dunstan, established a group of 12 monks at Westminster. Divine service has been celebrated on the present site for over a thousand years! The Abbey holds the distinction of being the coronation church of all the crowned sovereigns since William I in 1066 to the present day. Most of the Abbey as it is today was built on the orders of Henry III between 1220 and 1272. The design was essentially English, with single aisles, a long nave and widely projecting transepts, combined with French Gothic features such as the apse from which tall windowed chapels radiate, the use of flying buttresses on the exterior for structural support, and the round rose windows in the transepts. We entered the Abbey at the north door and this is the view above the door. | ||||
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