Westminster Abbey, London: Poet's Corner in the south transept with a statue of William Ewart Gladstone in the left foreground

NOTES: A Benedictine abbey was established on this site in the 10th century and it has been the coronation church of English monarchs since 1066. Construction on the present church began in 1245. The Gothic nave was begun in 1376 under Abbot Nicholas Litlyngton (d. 1386), and completed by the master mason, Henry Yevele, in the 1390s. The south transept is lit by a large rose window with glass which was inserted in 1902 by Messrs Burlison and Grylls to designs by G.F.Bodley and the medieval scholar M.R.James.