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Westminster

    Westminster Abbey is one of London’s biggest sightseeing and swarming with people, however most in the morning when tourbuses arrive in shoals. The best way to see that solemn enthusiasm in the church is to join a service, where you for exanple can hear the school boys choir of Westminster accompaniment from the church organ.

History

    Westminster has its name after a minster west of London, which is mentioned all ready in the 8^th century. In 1503 became Vor Frues chapel behind the highchoir replaced by Henry VII Chapel, the architectural highlight of the church. The Western Front was first completed in 1745 with the building of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s two towers.

The ship

    When you walk in through the westdoor and look up at the majestic ceiling, you immediately notice Westminster Abbey’s remarkable height (32 m) in relation to the width. Notice The Unknowned Soldier’s Grave just in front of you.

The choir and Saint-grave

    When you first have paid the entré to come behind the choirrail, you step into a part of the church, where the services are holded and the English kings and queens are crownded. From this are there a freely view to the gorgeous rosewindows in left transverse bottomwall.

Henry VII Chapel

    This is the most beautiful room of Westminster Abbey, which with its elegant ledgearch and slim Gothic columnbundles has a magnificent frame round the English royalgrave around the altar and in the aisles. The chapel is used, when the queen makes somebody a knight of Bath-order, instituted by Henry IV in 1399.

The Confessor’s Chapel

    A bridge leads from Henry VII Chapel to Edward the Confessor’s Saintchapel, the Confessor’s chapel, where the founder of the church is buried beside Henry VIII, who rebuilt it.

The cloister garth, the chapterhouse and Abbey Treasures.

    The crypt under the chapterhouse is the most exciting place in Westminster Abbey for the children. It comes from Edward the Confessor’s originally building and is now holding the treasury of the church and museum with f.x. some scary wax figure of Elizabeth I, Charles II and Lord Nelson, where they have used the deads death mask and own dreeses. F.x. is Lord Nelson’s hat and eyepatch the same, as he carried in living life. Some of the figures have a uniform laid with the side of the dead to parade, while the rest has been made in the 18^th century to pull visitors to Westminster Abbey.