Jamshed V Rajan 
Who Is Buried at Westminster Abbey? Kings, Poets & More More than 3,300 people are buried or memorialized at Westminster Abbey, including around 18 kings and queens, celebrated poets in Poets’ Corner such as Chaucer and Dickens, scientists including Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, statesmen, soldiers, and the Unknown Warrior. It is less a single … Read more
Grave of the Unknown Warrior — Westminster Abbey Guide The Grave of the Unknown Warrior is the tomb of an unidentified British soldier of the First World War, buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey by the Great West Door on 11 November 1920. He represents all the war dead who were never identified. The … Read more
Scientists’ Corner Westminster Abbey — Newton & Darwin Scientists’ Corner is the area around the quire screen in the nave of Westminster Abbey where many of Britain’s greatest scientists are buried or memorialized. Isaac Newton’s grand monument stands here over his grave, Charles Darwin is buried a few feet away, and Stephen Hawking’s ashes were … Read more
Royal Weddings at Westminster Abbey — 2026 Visitor Guide Westminster Abbey has hosted royal weddings for centuries, most famously the 2011 marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, watched by an estimated 2 billion people worldwide, and the 1947 wedding of the future Queen Elizabeth II to Prince Philip. It is also the coronation church … Read more
Westminster Abbey Royal Tombs — Kings & Queens Guide Around 18 kings and queens are buried at Westminster Abbey. At the heart lies the shrine of Edward the Confessor, ringed by medieval monarchs such as Henry III and Edward I. The Tudors dominate the Lady Chapel, where Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, the rival … Read more
Poets’ Corner at Westminster Abbey: Complete Guide 2026 Poets’ Corner is the part of Westminster Abbey’s south transept where Britain’s great writers are buried or commemorated. The tradition began when Geoffrey Chaucer was buried here in 1400. Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling and Alfred Lord Tennyson are among those buried; Shakespeare, Jane Austen and … Read more
Westminster Abbey Nave & Gothic Architecture Guide Westminster Abbey’s nave is the soaring central hall you enter through the Great West Door, and its vault — at about 102 feet — is the highest medieval vault in England. Begun under Henry III in 1245 in a French-influenced English Gothic style, the church was completed over … Read more
Lady Chapel Westminster Abbey — Henry VII Chapel Guide The Lady Chapel, also called the Henry VII Chapel, is the early-16th-century Perpendicular Gothic chapel at the east end of Westminster Abbey. It is famous for its pendant fan-vaulted ceiling, the shared tomb of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, the graves of Elizabeth I and … Read more
Jubilee Galleries Westminster Abbey — 2026 Visitor Guide The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries are a museum set high in Westminster Abbey’s medieval triforium, about 52 feet above the church floor and reached by the Weston Tower lift. Opened in 2018, they display treasures such as royal funeral effigies, the Litlyngton Missal and the Liber Regalis, … Read more
Westminster Abbey Highlights — What to See Inside 2026 The interior highlights of Westminster Abbey are the Nave and the grave of the Unknown Warrior, the Quire, Poets’ Corner, the Coronation Chair, the Cosmati Pavement, the Lady Chapel and the royal tombs, plus the Cloisters and Chapter House. A self-guided route with the included multimedia … Read more
