Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Greater London
There has been a building on this site since Roman times. Legend says there was a Christian church in 184AD. St Dunstan founded a Benedictine Abbey here in 959. The Abbey church was originally founded by Edward the Confessor in 1050-65. Since then it has been continually rebuilt and altered by later monarchs and their architects. The Abbey was dissolved in January 1540 when it was the richest monastery in England. Henry VIII converted the abbey into one of the new cathedrals of Reformation England. In 1556 Elizabeth I made it into the Collegiate church of St Peter which it is today. More Info
