The Abbey’s Curator, Dr Susan Jenkins, said: “Visitors to the Abbey’s Galleries are fascinated by how life-like Henry VII’s funeral effigy head is. We now hope to prove that sculptor Pietro Torrigiano ...

Henry VII's reign was a prosperous one, meaning there were funds to build the 'wonder of the world' Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey. It is there that the monarch lies alongside his wife ...

Henry died on 21st April 1509 and lies buried in a vault beneath a magnificent tomb in the Abbey’s Lady Chapel, also designed by Torrigiano (below). The tomb of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York in the ...

The lifelike funeral effigy head of King Henry VII, which is part of his tomb at Westminster Abbey, is often attributed to the Italian Renaissance sculptor Pietro Torrigiano Credit: Paul Grover ...

Image of Harrison and Harrison pipe organ at Westminster Abbey The first known account of an organ in the history of Westminster was in 1304 and consisted of a “pair of organs.” These organs were in ...

The Unexpected Afterlife of Catherine of Valois Catherine de Valois, wife of England’s famous warrior king Henry V, was laid to rest in the Lady Chapel of Westminster Abbey in 1437. However ...

On his return to London, Arbuthnot donated the tabot to the abbey. In 1870, Dean Arthur Stanley commissioned the architect George Gilbert Scott to erect a new altar in the Henry VII Lady Chapel.

Under this slab (once the altar of this chapel) for long cast down and broken up by fire, rest at last, after various vicissitudes, finally deposited here by command of Queen Victoria, the bones of ...

The Lady Chapel was built by Henry VII The Lady Chapel is a glorious example of late medieval architecture, famous for its spectacular fan-vaulted ceiling. It is the burial place of 15 Kings and ...

Though Westminster Abbey will be closed from April 25 through May 8 for King Charles' coronation, it is typically open to the public both for guided tours as well as church services.