A thousand years of national pageantry
by
Professor Richard Jenkyns
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
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...