Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, better known as Westminster Abbey - the traditional place of coronation and burial of kings of Great Britain. According to legend, the first church was built on the spot where one fisherman had a vision of St. Peter. Since then, every year the abbey gets the salmon as a gift from the London Guild of fishermen. In the 960-970 GG Saint Dunstan, with the support of King Edgar founded on this place a Benedictine monastery.

Between 1042 and 1052 Edward the Confessor begins the reconstruction of the Abbey of St. Peter, t . to .  I wanted a church that would serve as a royal burial place .  The cathedral was consecrated on December 28, 1065, just a week before the death of Edward .  He was buried in the cathedral, and after nine years next to him was his wife buried in Edita .  His successor Harold II, probably crowned in the same cathedral, although records kept only coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066 .  The only image of the cathedral is the time of the Bayeux Tapestry .  Construction of the temple in its present form began in 1245 under Henry III, who decided to honor the memory of Edward the Confessor, the highest Gothic nave in England, and at the same time chosen Cathedral his own house .  Construction lasted three hundred years .  Abbey has a greater political and economic influence, in terms of revenue behind only Glastonbury .  Henry VIII granted the Abbey cathedral status, Westminster and it saved from destruction and ruin .  Status of the cathedral was the cathedral only until 1550, and, apparently, at this time in England, there was a saying "rob Peter to pay Paul" - money intended for Westminster Abbey, walked into the treasury of the Cathedral of St. .  Paul's in London . 

The two western towers were added to the cathedral in 1722 - 1745, GG, and are a fine example of neo-Gothic architecture.

In addition to the coronation, Westminster Abbey - the traditional venue for royal weddings, but there are only two ruling married monarha- Henry I and Richard II. More recently, in Westminster Abbey, Prince William Duke of Cambridge married to Catherine Middleton.

Westminster Abbey is the burial place of many famous people of Britain. Here are buried Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, in the Poets' Corner - Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, John Keats, Brontё sister and many others.

The interior of the cathedral attracts the attention of mosaic floors Cosmati work of the XIII century, the coronation throne of St. Edward and frescoes of the Cathedral, which date back to the end of the XIII century.