Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey is the most complex church in the world in terms of its history, functions and memories - perhaps the most complex building of any kind. It has been an abbey and a cathedral and is now a collegiate church and a royal peculiar.

It is the coronation church, a royal mausoleum, a Valhalla for the tombs of the great, a national cathedral and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior. This new edition recounts the story of this iconic building and the role it plays in our national psyche.