Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English and, later, British monarchs. The building itself was a Benedictine monastic church until the monastery was dissolved in 1539. Between 1540 and 1556, the abbey had the status of a cathedral. Since 1560, the building is no longer an abbey or a cathedral, having instead the status of a Church of England "Royal Peculiar"-a church responsible directly to the sovereign. According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, a church was founded at the site (then known as Thorn Ey (Thorn Island)) in the seventh century, at the time of Mellitus, a Bishop of London. Construction of the present church began in 1245, on the orders of King Henry III. Since the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, all coronations of English and British monarchs have been in Westminster Abbey. There have been 16 royal weddings at the abbey since 1100. As the burial site of more than 3,300 persons, usually of predominant prominence in British history (including at least sixteen monarchs, eight Prime Ministers, poet laureates, actors, scientists, and military leaders, and the Unknown Warrior), Westminster Abbey is sometimes described as 'Britain's Valhalla', after the iconic burial hall of Norse mythology.
I hope you do fulfil your desire. But make sure, you have £20, yes £20 each person to enter a house of god. I say it is blasphemous. But, you won't be dissapointed. Good luck.
@@lasilo2017 No. The only Tudor monarch, that is not in the abbey, is Henry the 8th. He shares a stone slab with Charles the 1st in Windsor castle. I wonder why.
It is said the reason why Elizabeth 1st, was buried on top of marry was because Elizabeth HATED HER, Mary was a tyrannical mad woman burning people left right and centre, even tried to kill Elizabeth kept her locked up for years, so when Mary died Elizabeth un did all the hate and problems Mary did, growing England into an empire, When Elizabeth died she commanded she be entombed on top of Mary, as Elizabeth was “always on top” A one last fuck you That’s the legend anyway it’s well documented but no cast iron proof
Her orb did not symbolise that she was queen of the whole globe...it symbolises Christ's dominion over the world. It is a christian symbol signifying that the monarch reigned with the approval of the church. The narrator needs to do his research
@Brisdad53 Not true Brisdad.....QE1 wasn't interested in world domination. She spent most of her time and resources preventing invasion from the Spanish Empire
Here is some info to anybody that is visiting the abbey for first time and your not British. I went without knowing that much and It wasn’t a good experience. 1) don’t go when the Abbey just opens in the morning, their will be crowds of people and you will have to wait a long time. 2) Pay your ticket before you get in line or you’ll be forced to go back and wait longer. 3) All photograph and recording are forbidden in the abbey so if you do your likely get scolded by a grumpy Anglican priest. 4) Get the free headphone guide from the staff and use it, their aren’t any information plaques or signs so it will be very boring especially without any pictures. 5)Know the layout of the abbey so you don’t get lost once you exit the building you can’t go back without paying again, thankfully security was kinda lenient on us. 6) don’t go after a state event or during prayer time the the staff at the abbey will not be in the best of moods especially to a naive tourist that is not British.
Man, I wish to go there one day but I also wonder how do the cleaners clean it lool, that's some pretty high ceiling and many carved areas to go through
Actually Elizabeth I is not the only one buried under her marble effigy her half sister Mary I is also there it’s a joint tomb for the both there’s a plaque stating as such
Sylvia Black ... WOW! I've not visited either venue in over 25 years and neither charged an entry fee, there were large perspex chests where one could leave a donation towards the upkeep of the buildings.I'm not particularly surprised that an entry fee is now charged though £20 is rather steep. For that price I'd expect a cup of tea and a sticky bun,lol.
Not since 1066. William I of Normandy was crowned in Westminster Hall. ‘Great Britain’ is a pre-Saxon geographical term distinguishing the island of Britain from ‘Little Britain’, the peninsula of Brittany in NW France. Together, they were ‘The Land of the Britons’.
Also to tac onto what others have been saying is that ita very small and tight too Mary 1was buried underneath Elizabeth( placed ). Also in poet's corner, there were some that raised many an eyebrow for what they wrote and did. When I went there they were working on Edward 1st tomb. For being famous and all it felt very cramped. Once you got out of the main part it was better and beautiful.
There's a corner in the Abbey (just right of the Unknown Soldier) where a lot of British prime ministers are buried. I don't know why they don't call it PM Corner, similar to Poet's Corner. Oh, well.
The Abbey is huge and in many instances the remains are buried beneath the building itself. What you will see when visiting are memorial plaques either on the floor of the Abbey or in cases of prominent figures, i.e. monarchs in tombs. Bear in mind also that most of the remains are simply skeletons or partial skeletons which are not buried in full sized caskets/coffins.
Curiously, I went to the Abbey to find the resting place of King George II, one of the more obscure monarchs. His marker is on the floor and nobody seems to notice!
Westminster Abby was Catholic Church. It was also the home of a Benedictine Community of Catholic monks who sang the canonical hours, celebrated Catholic Mass and prayed each day for the Monarch and the Pope. It remained Catholic utill the protestant reformation of the 16th century when the monks were expelled, the Mass was forbidden, and protestant worship services were implemented. Unlike other monasteries and Abbeys which were destroyed by Henry the eighth, Westminster Abby survived only because it holds the mortal remains of Edward the confessor I. Catholics consider it "stolen property."
60toodles: Wrong. What is now the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster was once a Roman-Catholic place of worship, as a monastic church, until 1539 and a cathedral only between 1540 and 1556, and so those years as a cathedral encompassed the latter years of the reign of King Henry VIII (following-upon his renouncing of roman-catholicism), the entire reign of Henry's son, the fiercely-protestant King Edward VI, and the early years of the reign of his sister, the protestant Queen Elizabeth I - albeit it had reverted in the interim to catholicism during the reign of Edward's and Elizabeth's sister, Queen Mary I. The present Roman-Catholic Wesminster Cathedral (a short walk away) dates only from 1895-1903
@ McPike. Sorry but yours is mostly Hollywood history. The Latin mass continued and was the only service in the abbey in the tyrant's time even after the Benedictine punks, er, monks, were sent packing or imprisoned. Henry only attended that mass celebrated by Catholic priests with valid orders even after the schism with the Papacy. A church not in union with Rome but with a valid mass is not a new "founded" church. THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER establishing Anglicanism was written and published by Cranmer after Henry was dead and buried, under his son Edward, the boy King. Cranmer, and Edward and his Protestant mentors founded Anglicanism. The English reformation is mostly misunderstood, and Hollywood and even UK TV networks get it wrong a lot.
Food For Thought God's House here is Used a a Grave Yard . They are Nothing More than a Person ..Like You and me God's Son was Not Buried in the Temple . But put in a Tomb of Carved from Stone ..
Westminster Abbey will always be an english catholic consacrated church inspite of its use by the anglicans! There were, are and always will be catholic englishmen and englishwomen! Shame on King Henry VIII for what he did!
No, you just tried to exterminate the Irish people twice, first under Cromwell and then by denying them food when their potatoes got spoiled. That is not backward at all.
Herodotus 94 oh my lord, keep looking back in history to justify your victim complex. Remember many who built the British empire were themselves Irish. Not to mention Irish persecuting the Irish. I guess you all need a villain.
I was privileged to have sung at this place as a chorister from Barbados in 1971. Lovely experience.
Incredible church... it's amazing!!!!
One of the thousand iconic in UK..
Westminster Abbey, the tower of honor in English history 👍👍👍!
So much history. Such a beautiful site. I would love to see it. Maybe one day.
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.
It is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English and, later, British monarchs.
The building itself was a Benedictine monastic church until the monastery was dissolved in 1539.
Between 1540 and 1556, the abbey had the status of a cathedral.
Since 1560, the building is no longer an abbey or a cathedral, having instead the status of a Church of England "Royal Peculiar"-a church responsible directly to the sovereign.
According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, a church was founded at the site (then known as Thorn Ey (Thorn Island)) in the seventh century, at the time of Mellitus, a Bishop of London.
Construction of the present church began in 1245, on the orders of King Henry III.
Since the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, all coronations of English and British monarchs have been in Westminster Abbey.
There have been 16 royal weddings at the abbey since 1100.
As the burial site of more than 3,300 persons, usually of predominant prominence in British history (including at least sixteen monarchs, eight Prime Ministers, poet laureates, actors, scientists, and military leaders, and the Unknown Warrior), Westminster Abbey is sometimes described as 'Britain's Valhalla', after the iconic burial hall of Norse mythology.
Wonderful video. You are a world treasure Mr Steves. Many thanks.
Graham, Scotland,UK.
My heartfelt thanks for all your splendid videos!
My favorite place in London!! 😍
I dream to go there, just to see Elizabeth I. It’s my drean
God speed you to realise your dream.
I hope you do fulfil your desire.
But make sure, you have £20, yes £20 each person to enter a house of god.
I say it is blasphemous.
But, you won't be dissapointed.
Good luck.
Erica M. Wasn’t Queen Elizabeth buried in the Tower of London?
@@lasilo2017
No. The only Tudor monarch, that is not in the abbey, is Henry the 8th.
He shares a stone slab with Charles the 1st in Windsor castle.
I wonder why.
DAVID RYLEY Oh! Thank you so much David.
Jim morrison visited this I can see why he wanted to be known as a poet firstly and profoundly I visited hes grave twice now may he rest in peace
I love that place in London! Thanks for the video
So beautiful, amazing!
It's not only the tomb of Elizabeth I, her half sister Queen Mary I is buried there with her and it was actually Mary's tomb first.
Twelfth Lady So Was Her Stepmother Anne Of Cleves
Why were they buried together if Mary hated Elizabeth?
Eric Jones: Neither had any say in the matter.....
Originally Mary wanted her mother Katherine of Aragon buried with her but instead Elizabeth was buried there
It is said the reason why Elizabeth 1st, was buried on top of marry was because Elizabeth HATED HER, Mary was a tyrannical mad woman burning people left right and centre, even tried to kill Elizabeth kept her locked up for years, so when Mary died Elizabeth un did all the hate and problems Mary did, growing England into an empire,
When Elizabeth died she commanded she be entombed on top of Mary, as Elizabeth was “always on top”
A one last fuck you
That’s the legend anyway it’s well documented but no cast iron proof
Hope to see it some day!
Fat chance.
My hero
Her orb did not symbolise that she was queen of the whole globe...it symbolises Christ's dominion over the world. It is a christian symbol signifying that the monarch reigned with the approval of the church. The narrator needs to do his research
Neil
Kdfk
When was "Christ" given dominion over the whole "globe"?
@Brisdad53 Not true Brisdad.....QE1 wasn't interested in world domination.
She spent most of her time and resources preventing invasion from the Spanish Empire
Globus cruciger ...held by most monarchs at their coronation.......They didn't all want to rule the world.
Every one steps on remains of great persons.. Is that an honour
An amazing person
Omg I want to visit!! It looks beautiful
They should do forensic facial reconstruction of all english kings (3 D-scan of all skuls)
I am learning about this
Thanks.
wonderful
Here is some info to anybody that is visiting the abbey for first time and your not British. I went without knowing that much and It wasn’t a good experience.
1) don’t go when the Abbey just opens in the morning, their will be crowds of people and you will have to wait a long time.
2) Pay your ticket before you get in line or you’ll be forced to go back and wait longer.
3) All photograph and recording are forbidden in the abbey so if you do your likely get scolded by a grumpy Anglican priest.
4) Get the free headphone guide from the staff and use it, their aren’t any information plaques or signs so it will be very boring especially without any pictures.
5)Know the layout of the abbey so you don’t get lost once you exit the building you can’t go back without paying again, thankfully security was kinda lenient on us.
6) don’t go after a state event or during prayer time the the staff at the abbey will not be in the best of moods especially to a naive tourist that is not British.
Some of Bodies were not buried at that site. Later been put there.
that makes no sense at all.
I like this place and shall visit London soon with British Airways from Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport
Great Video
Man, I wish to go there one day but I also wonder how do the cleaners clean it lool, that's some pretty high ceiling and many carved areas to go through
Actually Elizabeth I is not the only one buried under her marble effigy her half sister Mary I is also there it’s a joint tomb for the both there’s a plaque stating as such
Make sure you have a lot of money to visit London. It cost at least £20 to gain entry into Westminster Abbey, Same with St. Paul's cathedral.
Sylvia Black ... WOW! I've not visited either venue in over 25 years and neither charged an entry fee, there were large perspex chests where one could leave a donation towards the upkeep of the buildings.I'm not particularly surprised that an entry fee is now charged though £20 is rather steep. For that price I'd expect a cup of tea and a sticky bun,lol.
Not for a service....
Not since 1066. William I of Normandy was crowned in Westminster Hall. ‘Great Britain’ is a pre-Saxon geographical term distinguishing the island of Britain from ‘Little Britain’, the peninsula of Brittany in NW France. Together, they were ‘The Land of the Britons’.
Wow
Also to tac onto what others have been saying is that ita very small and tight too
Mary 1was buried underneath Elizabeth( placed ). Also in poet's corner, there were some that raised many an eyebrow for what they wrote and did. When I went there they were working on Edward 1st tomb. For being famous and all it felt very cramped. Once you got out of the main part it was better and beautiful.
There's a corner in the Abbey (just right of the Unknown Soldier) where a lot of British prime ministers are buried. I don't know why they don't call it PM Corner, similar to Poet's Corner. Oh, well.
excellent,many thanks
Westminster Abbey is known as a Royal Peculiar, the Archbishop of Cantebury has no 'power' there.
Isaac Newton♥♥ its my dream to stand in front of Isaac Newtons grave.ill visit here someday.
Important place for English people.
newtons grave
Mark christmas and now Stephen hawking lays next to him
GOD ALMIGHTY BLESS CHRISTIAN ENGLAND.... AND ALL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.... AMEN
Meh it’s more atheist now tbh over 50%
Don Helvin O'danill Frias amen
Was their last week wasn't allowed take photos unfortunately..
Yeah but I snuck a few while no one was looking. It was magnificent I assure you !
There are more interested places like the "The Coronation Chair" and "The Quire"
Charles Darwin is buried there. How ironic.
Yes very ironic.
The resting place of Mary Queen of Scots.
M99980 yes that Mary.
sorry Steve, sloppy research in this vid, not up to your usual.
Handel 😎
It’s Mary 1 and Elizabeth’s tomb. Mary was buried there first
How can there be 3,300 people buried there? Where do they find the room?
The Abbey is huge and in many instances the remains are buried beneath the building itself. What you will see when visiting are memorial plaques either on the floor of the Abbey or in cases of prominent figures, i.e. monarchs in tombs. Bear in mind also that most of the remains are simply skeletons or partial skeletons which are not buried in full sized caskets/coffins.
Wow! Thank you for your reply.
You're welcome.
🙂🙂🙂🙂
Where I belongs too
The Davinci Code
your point??
In 93, I went there and didn't have to pay to see it all...cool
WHAT ABOUT ANNE OF CLEVES
Curiously, I went to the Abbey to find the resting place of King George II, one of the more obscure monarchs. His marker is on the floor and nobody seems to notice!
Wait so inside them tombs are actually ashes and body’s of the REAL kings and queens, why don’t we X-ray them ?
Why?
Will Queen Elizabeth II be buried here?
No, Frogmore where Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are buried.
Thanks!
DONNA .... As Damian points out, it is very likely she will be buried, (entombed), in St. George's Chapel where her beloved parents are buried.
Thanks!
Is that their real bodies ? Or just statues?
Effigies
how did you get your camera in there?!!
Same way they get mobile phones in prison
Its the Anglican church now.
it was always anglican. it was westminster 'cathedral' that was catholic. totally different place
1:04 are they actually buried in the floor?
Could be ashes
Much prettier than "notre dame" and a Frenchman says so.
Westminster Abbey was the Catholic Church in England...
wrong. It was always Anglican. It was westminster 'cathedral' that was catholic.
Westminster Abby was Catholic Church. It was also the home of a Benedictine Community of Catholic monks who sang the canonical hours, celebrated Catholic Mass and prayed each day for the Monarch and the Pope. It remained Catholic utill the protestant reformation of the 16th century when the monks were expelled, the Mass was forbidden, and protestant worship services were implemented. Unlike other monasteries and Abbeys which were destroyed by Henry the eighth, Westminster Abby survived only because it holds the mortal remains of Edward the confessor I. Catholics consider it "stolen property."
60toodles: Wrong. What is now the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster was once a Roman-Catholic place of worship, as a monastic church, until 1539 and a cathedral only between 1540 and 1556, and so those years as a cathedral encompassed the latter years of the reign of King Henry VIII (following-upon his renouncing of roman-catholicism), the entire reign of Henry's son, the fiercely-protestant King Edward VI, and the early years of the reign of his sister, the protestant Queen Elizabeth I - albeit it had reverted in the interim to catholicism during the reign of Edward's and Elizabeth's sister, Queen Mary I. The present Roman-Catholic Wesminster Cathedral (a short walk away) dates only from 1895-1903
@ McPike. Sorry but yours is mostly Hollywood history. The Latin mass continued and was the only service in the abbey in the tyrant's time even after the Benedictine punks, er, monks, were sent packing or imprisoned. Henry only attended that mass celebrated by Catholic priests with valid orders even after the schism with the Papacy. A church not in union with Rome but with a valid mass is not a new "founded" church. THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER establishing Anglicanism was written and published by Cranmer after Henry was dead and buried, under his son Edward, the boy King. Cranmer, and Edward and his Protestant mentors founded Anglicanism. The English reformation is mostly misunderstood, and Hollywood and even UK TV networks get it wrong a lot.
How year old are this
2019 ?
Fanciful banners? They're the banners of the current Knights & Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.
0:40 is that real or not?
It is her tomb yes.
The thing you see is a statue
Weird Edwards tomb survived but not Williams probably from invaders
William is buried in France.
Globe entire Elisabeth ? Entire Globe Felipe ll of Spain.
波動が暗くて重い。悪魔が棲んでいるのか?
Queen of the entire globe, huh? A desk globe or one of those big ones in a stand?
It’s banned to film insidd
Probably because he gorged himself with Cheetos and Mountain Dew LOL
Is this where they will bury QE2
CHARLES DICKENS
sad to see the name of the king and queen of britain on tourist trampling
Kannada
it will be a mosque in about 10-15 years
ur probably right.
Dear, if it is you are most welcome to come to visit it.
Physics Only, its more likely that White will be in the minority in the US.
No we'll rid ourselves of the plague long before 10 years.
I pray to the Lord Yeshua that Westminster Abbey will remain as it is. No mosque will EVER occupy it! There are beautiful mosques in England.
De todos los q están ahí ninguno tiene a Jesucristo en su corazón .solo idoatras nada más viviendo en la ignorancia
Queen of just I’m not the hole world excuse you.
Disappointing with it's commonly known facts that are glaringly incorrect.
transformers at bottom church
viva la figa
могильник ...
Ok
Just a quick 66th 6
Food For Thought
God's House here is Used a a Grave Yard . They are Nothing More than a Person ..Like You and me
God's Son was Not Buried in the Temple . But put in a Tomb of Carved from Stone ..
Westminster Abbey will always be an english catholic consacrated church inspite of its use by the anglicans! There were, are and always will be catholic englishmen and englishwomen! Shame on King Henry VIII for what he did!
But no more catholic monarchs
Shall we begin to discuss the Spanish Inquisition? We in England are happy to have broken away from archaic and backward catholicism.
Filipe Matias Cry about it.
No, you just tried to exterminate the Irish people twice, first under Cromwell and then by denying them food when their potatoes got spoiled. That is not backward at all.
Herodotus 94 oh my lord, keep looking back in history to justify your victim complex. Remember many who built the British empire were themselves Irish. Not to mention Irish persecuting the Irish. I guess you all need a villain.
Brexit supporters like it. 😂😂👍🏻😉🇬🇧⛪️
So Kate got married in a tomb basically!
wickedness!