Westminster Abbey: A Souvenir Guide

by Esme West

GLOSSY 48 PP 8X11 ENGLISH GUIDE, PHOTOS & TEXT

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, History, Reference, Historical, Architecture, Guidebook

Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[David Fulmer · Rating 5 out of 5]

This guidebook gives a brief history of Westminster Abbey then goes on to describe the different areas of the church, enriching its descriptions with background on the people memorialized there through chapels, tombs, and stone markers. It describes the different chapels, Poets’ Corner, and other artifacts in the church like the Coronation Chair, a chair from the 1200s where monarchs are crowned in England (and also, incidentally, a target for suffragettes who planted a bomb on it in 1914). It offers a succinct and well-illustrated history of this world-famous monument.

[Siri Olsen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Westminster Abbey: A Souvenir Guide provides an in-depth look at the history of Westminster Abbey, detailing its various stages of construction, the changing functions and uses it has been put to our time, and many of the most important people associated with it. It functions as a guidebook, organised according to location within the abbey, but it provides a lot more background and information on what you might see there than the shorter tour-version. For that reason, I vastly preferred A Souvenir Guide to A Short Tour. Highly recommended.

[Mark · Rating 5 out of 5]

A slender volume full of excellent colour photographs. This book also does a fine job of not only describing the features of Westminster Abbey but also detailing the often sordid, violent, and messy history of England and the Abbey.

[Jim Blessing · Rating 3 out of 5]

I visited the Abbey during our trip to London in 2014. We also attended a service there.

[Bo Schutte · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great souvenir to read, some great historical facts and great photos

[Steffi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Een interessant boek als je geïnteresseerd bent in de geschiedenis van Westminster Abbey