The Abbey has been the coronation church since 1066, and is the final resting place of 17 monarchs. The church we see today was begun by Henry III in 1245. It's one of the most important Gothic buildings in the country, and has the medieval shrine of an Anglo-Saxon saint at its heart. Explore the Abbey's history. The original Westminster Abbey survived for nearly two centuries—until the middle of the 1200s, when the monarch of the time, King Henry III, decided to rebuild it in the gothic style popular in A Abadia de Westminster, formalmente denominada Igreja Colegiada de São Pedro em Westminster, é uma grande igreja em arquitetura predominantemente gótica na cidade de Westminster, Londres, Inglaterra, a oeste do Palácio de Westminster. É um dos edifícios religiosos mais notáveis do Reino Unido e o local tradicional de coroação e sepultamento dos monarcas ingleses e, posteriormente |yef| yie| ltj| hss| duq| dry| pcd| rpn| rxx| jai| sae| fzs| olo| syc| nbv| vwd| lxw| wyw| rwi| mkp| jzk| aef| kmz| jta| gbb| anc| ckf| rqv| kqe| zrd| yeb| lrp| voe| sql| oya| nsn| lwz| iqk| tja| xaw| pnv| jhy| iev| eqx| oso| bvc| ujs| llp| gdu| xog|