London 2
My visit to London was in May, 1987
also see:
London 1
Other United Kingdom Pages:
England Home Page
.
Photos of England:
Bath Blenheim Palace
Cambridge
Canterbury
Castle Howard
Cornwall
Lake District
London 1
Northern England Oxford
Plymouth
Salisbury
Windsor Castle
.
Photos of
Scotland:
Edinburgh
lochs
Slide Show
(Requires MS
Windows operating system to run. Will not play on Mac operating
systems)
England Slide Show
(../ss/england1-exec.exe)
30 MB
British History:
Portraits of British
Monarchs 1 and
2
List of British Monarchs
(outside link)
History of England
(outside link)
Battles in England (outside link)
Westminster Abbey, Tower Bridge,
Tower of London, Greenwich Observatory
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, the most famous church in Great Britain,
enshrining many of the traditions of the British people. Located in London
and officially known as the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter in
Westminster, it was built in stages between the 11th and 19th centuries
and comprises the main church plus chapels, cloister, chapter house, and
towers. Construction was begun by the English king Edward the Confessor in
1050, on the site of an older Romanesque church, and the abbey was rebuilt
in its present Gothic style starting in 1245. English monarchs since
William the Conqueror in 1066 have been crowned in the abbey, and many
from Edward's time until 1760 (George II) are buried in its chapels. The
tombs of famous citizens, among them the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, the
physicist Isaac Newton, and the naturalist Charles Darwin are located in
the main church of the abbey. The abbey also contains monuments to
prominent political figures and, in the four bays and aisles comprising
the Poets' Corner, tributes to Shakespeare and other outstanding literary
personages.
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