Get your tickets to Westminster Abbey - steeped in more than a thousand years of history. Benedictine monks first came to this site in the middle of the tenth century, establishing a tradition of daily worship which continues to this day.
The present church, begun by Henry III in 1245, is one of the most important Gothic buildings in the country, with the medieval shrine of an Anglo-Saxon saint still at its heart.
A treasure house of paintings, stained glass, pavements, textiles and other artefacts, Westminster Abbey is also the place where some of the most significant people in the nation's history are buried or commemorated.
New for 2020! - Catch Canaletto’s painting of Westminster Abbey, rarely seen in public, on display in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries - only until autumn!
