Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey or the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster is a large Gothic church and it’s the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English monarchs. In fact, it’s one of the most important Gothic buildings in the country.

This abbey was built by King Edward the Confessor, around 1045-1050, as part of his palace there and was consecrated in 1065, a week before the Confessor’s death. Nevertheless, the original abbey, in the Romanesque style, was built by Benedictine monks, who established a tradition of daily worship which continues to this day.

In addition, to part of a treasure house of paintings, stained glass, pavement, textiles and other artifacts, Westminster Abbey is also the place where some of the most significant people in the nation’s history are buried or commemorated.

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Westminster cathedral

Westminster cathedral

Westminster cathedral is one of the greatest secrets of London and it is the mother church of the Catholic community in England. It’s located in Victoria, in the City of Westminster, and it’s the largest Catholic church in England and Wales.

After two false starts in 1867 and 1892, the construction started in 1895, with John Francis Bentley as architect. Finally, the cathedral opened in 1903, but for economic reasons, the decoration of the interior hasn’t finished yet.

The showiest exterior features of the cathedral are the big belfry, the Saint Eduard's tower and the west front for his props and arches.

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1. British Museum

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1. British Museum

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The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury.

The Rosetta Stone is an Ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree (rule of law) issued at Memphis, Egypt in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper one is in Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle one in Egyptian demotic script, and the lower text in Ancient Greek. Because it presents essentially the same text in all three scripts, it provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Rosetta Stone is now in The British Museum in London.

The Elgin Marbles are a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures, inscriptions and architectural members that originally were part of the Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis of Athens.

A mummy is the body of a person (or an animal) whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme coldness, very low humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs. In The British Museum there are mummies of the Ancient Egypt.

Lindow Man is the name given to the preserved bog body of a man discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, North West England. The body was found on 1 August 1984 by commercial peat-cutters. Lindow Man is not the only bog body to have been found in the moss. The find helped invigorate study of British bog bodies.