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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
Broad Sanctuary SW1.
Map 13 B5. Tel 020 7222 5152.
∑ westminster-abbey.org
Cloisters: Open 9am–6pm daily.
Abbey: Open 9:30am–3:30pm
Mon–Fri (to 6pm Wed), 9:30am–
3:30pm Sat (Sep–Apr: to 1:30pm
Sat). Admission at the final
. The Lady Chapel entrance times given allow one
The chapel, consecrated in hour to explore. Closed for
1516, has a superb vaulted special events; check website.
ceiling and choirstalls Museum Open 10:30am–4pm
dating from 1512. Mon–Sat. & Pyx Chamber: Open
10am–4pm Mon–Sat. College
Garden Open Apr–Sep: 10am–
6pm Tue–Thu; Oct–Mar: 10am–
4pm Tue–Thu. Evensong: 5pm
Mon–Fri, 3pm Sat & Sun (May–
Aug: 5pm Sat). Queen’s Diamond
Jubilee Galleries: Open due to
open 2018, check website ^ 7
limited. 8 9 - = Concerts.
Transport
1 St James’s Park, Westminster.
@ 3, 11, 12, 24, 29, 53, 70, 77,
87, 88, 109, 148, 159, 170, 211.
3 Victoria, Waterloo.
4 Westminster Pier.

. Chapter House
This octagonal structure is worth
seeing for its 13th-century tiles.

2011 Prince
1050 New Benedic- 1376 Henry William and
tine abbey church Yevele begins 13th-century tile 1838 Queen Catherine
begun by Edward rebuilding from the Chapter Victoria’s Middleton’s
the Confessor House coronation
the nave wedding
1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000
1269 Body of Edward the 1745 West towers
1245 New church Confessor moved to new completed
begun to the designs shrine in the Abbey 1953 Most recent
of Henry of Reyns 1540 Monastery coronation in the
dissolved Abbey: Elizabeth II’s

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