Westminster

After the Palace and the Monastery, the City of Refuge, the Sign of the Red Pale, and the Borough at Election-time, we turn to the City streets and the people.

The kings of England held their Court in the Old Palace, the Palace of Westminster, for five hundred years. Of all the buildings which formed that Palace, there remain at this d...

He who considers the history of Westminster presently observes with surprise that he is reading about a city which has no citizens. In this respect Westminster is alone among ci...

To write upon Westminster and not to speak of Caxton would be indeed impossible. As well write of America and forget Columbus. Even at the risk of doing over again what has alre...

Westminster is the City of Kings’ Houses. It contains, or has contained, five of them. Of these we have already considered one--the earliest and the most interesting. Of the fou...

I leave to courtly hands, to ecclesiastics of rank, to those who understand the pomp and dignity of history, the Abbey Church, with its royal memories and national associations....

The Houses of Parliament--their history, their buildings, their constitution--belong to the history of the Empire. They happen to stand in the City of Westminster; but their his...

On the northwest corner of the Abbey precinct--that is to say, on the right hand as one entered by the High Gate from King Street, where now stands the Westminster “Guildhall”--...

The Abbey must not, however, be dismissed without some reference to its history. There is a history of its buildings, and there is a history of its people. The architectural his...

The history of the successive Coronations performed in Westminster Abbey from that of the Conqueror to the present day--especially those which were picturesque--may be found in...