Feeling small at Westminster Abbey - a photo on Flickriver

            Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English and, later, British monarchs. Between 1540 and 1556, the abbey had the status of a cathedral. Since 1560, however, the building is no longer an abbey nor a cathedral, having instead the status of a Church of England "Royal Peculiar"—a church responsible directly to the sovereign. The building itself is the original abbey church.

According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, a church was founded at the site (then known as Thorn Ey (Thorn Island)) in the 7th century, at the time of Mellitus, a Bishop of London. Construction of the present church began in 1245, on the orders of King Henry III.

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / London / Victoria (show map)

Taken on: June 12, 2004

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Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S5000, f/5.6, 1/680 sec, 5.7mm, ISO 160 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Fujifilm FinePix S5000
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/680)
Focal Length:	5.7mm
ISO:	160
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS Windows
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