On the marble ledge between the feet of the statue the letters "T.T.1787" are incised. This is probably graffiti by a Westminster schoolboy, as there are many other monuments in the Abbey that were ...

Above the Abbey's Great West Door stand ten statues to modern martyrs - Christians who gave up their lives for their beliefs. The martyrs are drawn from every continent and many Christian ...

Wilberforce died three days later. Image caption, Queen Elizabeth II lays a wreath on a statue of William Wilberforce in Westminster Abbey during a service to mark the Bicentenary of the Abolition ...