Westminster Abbey, London: the choir, apse and sanctuary seen from the west

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 13th century stalls of the choir were removed in the late 18th century when Henry Keene, the then surveyor, designed a smaller choir. It was redesigned in Victorian Gothic style by Edward Blore in the 1850s when the partitions which until then had blocked off the transepts were removed.