The silver gilt cross was given in 1899 by Lord Rosebery, following his daughter's marriage here. In front of the High Altar is one of the Abbey's treasures. This is a marble pavement dating from 1268 ...
Dimensions: 213 x 110 cms. The ancient sedilia (seats for the priests during Mass) to the south of the Abbey's High Altar were erected in the reign of Edward I, when Walter de Wenlok was Abbot of ...
A sacred Ethiopian tablet looted at the height of empire could be returned to Africa after being held for years in Westminster Abbey ... in limbo in the back of an altar or a room in the bowels ...