Westminster Abbey
Publié le 09/04/2013
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Westminster Abbey
This place is located on the road A3212 and is not very far of the Statue of Richard I of England and of
the
Saint Margaret Church of England
. Morever, there is also the famous tower untitled
Big Ben
, at 0,2
miles, the
Victoria Tower is
at 2 min by walk and the Thames is ever near not either...
The exact adress of Westminster Abbey is the 20 Deans Yd in
London.
If we walk along the A3212, we come on the St Margaret street and the Parliament street. So, not very
far of the Parliament Street, there is the
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
, on the King Charles Street.
The Westminster Abbey is an important place in the history of Great Britain because of a lot of things.
For begin, this is the most important gothic building in the country, with a medieval shrine of an Anglo-
Saxon saint. In this place, there is also significant peoples who had buried or commemorated in the
nation's history. For example,
We can also notice that in the Abbey, there has been the coronation church since 1066 and there is the
final resting place of seventeen monarchs.
Furthermore, this abbey is old of more of a thousand years. The church of now was began by Henri III
in 1245. This Abbey have also the most important collection of monumental sculpture in the United
Kingdom.
Homewere, not only the Abbey is important. His library is also important because there have an
important collection of archives, printed books and manuscripts which belong to the Dean and Chapter
of Westminster in it. There are providing of a center for their study and for research into all aspects of
the Abbey's long and varied history...
The streets are not very ammenaged for take a walk.
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