Westminster Abbey is a large, mainly Gothic church, in the City of Westminster, London, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English, later British and later still (and currently) monarchs of the Commonwealth realms. The abbey is a Royal Peculiar and briefly held the status of a cathedral from 1540 to 1550.The entire time we walked through it all I could think of was how the hell did they build this. Our tour guide kept talking about information about it and what it's used for and who was buried there, but all I could think to myself was how does someone go about building this? It was insanely mammoth and the detail that went along with it was breathtaking.
The Abbey has a lot of tradition and the workings of the burials is very serious to everyone involved with it. It became one of Britain's most significant honors to be buried or commemorated here. The practice of burying national figures in the Abbey began under Oliver Cromwell with the burial of Admiral Robert Blake in 1657. Being buried here shows your power and how important the people thought you were. Once buried here you became a global influence, a symbol and you will be remembered forever as one of the greats.
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