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    Westminster Abbey: Authors: D.Rebitskyi A.Poplavskyi

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    Westminster Abbey is a large Gothic abbey church located in London, England. It has historically served as the traditional place of coronation and burial for English and British monarchs. The first church on the site was built in the 1060s under King Edward the Confessor, who was also the first monarch buried there. The current Gothic church dates back to renovations in the 13th century under King Henry III. Today, Westminster Abbey remains one of the most notable religious buildings in the UK.

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    Westminster Abbey is a large Gothic abbey church located in London, England. It has historically served as the traditional place of coronation and burial for English and British monarchs. The first church on the site was built in the 1060s under King Edward the Confessor, who was also the first monarch buried there. The current Gothic church dates back to renovations in the 13th century under King Henry III. Today, Westminster Abbey remains one of the most notable religious buildings in the UK.

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    Westminster Abbey is a large Gothic abbey church located in London, England. It has historically served as the traditional place of coronation and burial for English and British monarchs. The first church on the site was built in the 1060s under King Edward the Confessor, who was also the first monarch buried there. The current Gothic church dates back to renovations in the 13th century under King Henry III. Today, Westminster Abbey remains one of the most notable religious buildings in the UK.

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    Westminster Abbey is a large Gothic abbey church located in London, England. It has historically served as the traditional place of coronation and burial for English and British monarchs. The first church on the site was built in the 1060s under King Edward the Confessor, who was also the first monarch buried there. The current Gothic church dates back to renovations in the 13th century under King Henry III. Today, Westminster Abbey remains one of the most notable religious buildings in the UK.

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    Westminster Abbey

    Authors: D.Rebitskyi
    A.Poplavskyi
    Westminster Abbey

    • 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 a
    burial site for English and, later, British
    monarchs. This is the place where
    kings are crowned and burial place of
    monarchs of England.
    History

    • Between 1042 and 1052, King Edward the Confessor


     began rebuilding St Peter's Abbey to provide himself
    with a royal burial church. It was the first church in
    England built in the Romanesque style. The building was
    completed around 1060 and was consecrated on 28
    December 1065, only a week before Edward's death on
    5 January 1066.[9] A week later, he was buried in the
    church; and, nine years later, his wife Edith was buried
    alongside him.[10] His successor, Harold II, was probably
    crowned in the abbey, although the first documented
    coronation is that of William the Conqueror later the
    same year.[11]
    • The only extant depiction of Edward's abbey, together
    with the adjacent Palace of Westminster, is in the 
    Bayeux Tapestry. Some of the lower parts of the
    monastic dormitory, an extension of the South Transept,
    survive in the Norman Undercroft of the Great School,
    including a door said to come from the previous Saxon
     abbey. Increased endowments supported a community
    that increased from a dozen monks in Dunstan's original
    foundation, up to a maximum of about eighty monks.
    This temple was founded according to legend in 616
    Interesting facts
    • In the 960s or in the 970s of the Dunstan
    saints. For the dissolution of King Edgar,
    founded the center of Benedict monks
    • The temple was consecrated in 1065
    • Inside was the last coronation of King
    Harold II before the Norman invasion
    • In 1245 the cathedral was rebuilt by Henry
    III.After that, it was allowed to bury the
    monks near the temple
    • in 1535 the profits became 2400-2800
    pounds in wealth.
    • The towers of the abbey were built from
    1722 to 1745 by architect Nicholas
    Hawksmoor
    • Today, these towers are symbol of the
    Gothic Renaissance
    Thanks for attention!

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