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Westminster Abbey is a London church that is one of the most notable religious buildings in the United Kingdom. It is, and has been the traditional place of coronation and the burial site for English and, later, British monarchs.
Westminster Abbey is situated on the grounds of a former Benedictine monastery which has proven origins that date back to 960 when Saint Dunstan, assisted by King Edgar, installed a community of Benedictine monks here. These Benedictine monks established a tradition of daily worship which continues to this day.
Edward the Confessor built a new church on the site, which was consecrated on December 28, 1065. Since 1066, when William the Conqueror was crowned, Westminster Abbey has been the setting for every Coronation. Harold II was probably crowned in the abbey, although the first documented coronation is that of William the Conqueror. There have been at least 16 royal weddings at the abbey since 1100. Two were of reigning monarchs (Henry I and Richard II).
In 1245 Henry III had Edward's church demolished (except the nave) and replaced it with the present abbey church in the pointed Gothic style of the period.
Between 1540 and 1556 the abbey had the status of a cathedral. However, the building is no longer an abbey nor a cathedral, having instead the status of a Church of England "Royal Peculiar" — a church responsible directly to the sovereign. This happened in 1560 when it was re-founded as the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster by Queen Elizabeth I. The building itself is the original abbey church.
The tombs and memorials comprise the most significant single collection of monumental sculpture anywhere in the United Kingdom. It is estimated that 3,300 people are buried or commemorated at Westminster Abbey, many of them among the most significant in the nation's history.
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