High Altar. Around the altar. In front of the High Altar is one of the Abbey's treasures. This is a marble pavement dating from 1268 and the method of its decoration is known as Cosmati work, after ...

Since the year 1066, Westminster Abbey has been the site of coronations, 16 royal weddings, ... A view of the Westminster Abbey, The High Altar on June 1, 2021 in London, England.

According to the Westminster Abbey website, the inscriptions calculated the world would last for 19,683 years. Facing the pavement is the High Altar, where monarchs are crowned, which is gold ...

King Henry III commissioned the intricate mosaic of marble, stone, glass and metal, located in front of the abbey’s high altar, in the 1200s. Italian craftsmen and English masons made it.

An Ethiopian tablet sealed inside an altar in London’s Westminster Abbey should be returned to its home country, say abbey officials, setting in motion the possible restitution of the sacred object.

Abbey Marshal Howard Berry stands at the centre of the Cosmati pavement, located before the altar, during a photo call at Westminster Abbey, central London, to announce special events to celebrate ...

Westminster Abbey became a church of royal importance in the 1040s, when Edward the Confessor, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England, ... Laid in front of the abbey’s high altar, ...

Edward’s Westminster Abbey was replaced in the mid-1200s with the modern-day building, although the two great towers that now loom above the abbey were not added until the early 18th century.This ...