An architectural masterpiece of the 13th to 16th centuries, Westminster Abbey also presents a unique pageant of British history – is a place that's touched the lives of kings, queens, statesmen and soldiers, poets, priests, heroes and villains since 960AD. Westminster Abbey has been the coronation church since 1066 and is the resting place of more than 3,000 great Britons. Visit the the tombs of kings and queens, and countless memorials to the famous and the great.