Westminster Abbey is a Gothic monastery church in
London that is the traditional place of coronation and burial
for English monarchs.
Neither a cathedral nor a parish
church, Westminster Abbey is a place of worship owned by
the royal family.
Edward the...
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Westminster Abbey is a Gothic monastery church in
London that is the traditional place of coronation and burial
for English monarchs.
Neither a cathedral nor a parish
church, Westminster Abbey is a place of worship owned by
the royal family.
Edward the Confessor was founded the
benedictine abbey in 1065 year in this
place, overlooking the square of the
Parliament.
Presumably, the first king
of england, who was crowned here,
Harold was in January 1066.
Defeated
him at the battle of Hastings William
the Conqueror was crowned here in the
same year, and the first record in the
abbey witnessed it.
The traditions of the
coronation survived till our times.
Early
English gothic structure of the building
of the abbey in the greater degree is
obliged to Henry III, than any of the
other rulers, although many architects,
including TO.
Rehn, have made their
contribution to the appearance of the
abbey.
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