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Westminster Abbey

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Address20 Deans Yd, Westminster, London SW1P 3PA, UK
Opened 1090
Denomination Church of England
Phone +44 20 7222 5152
Burials Stephen Hawking
Isaac Newton
Mary, Queen of Scots
Architects George Gilbert Scott
Nicholas Hawksmoor
John of Gloucester
Henry Yevele
Henry of Reyns
Robert of Beverley
Did you knowHighlights of Westminster Abbey include the nave, which is the highest in England, and the chapel of Henry VII.
Height 6900 (cm)
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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.

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