Located in the heart of London, DNA Bioscience provide paternity testing and other DNA relationship testing to the residents of Central London and especially the West End. As we have dealt with a number of customers from this area we wanted to also take the opportunity of providing information about the main tourist attraction of the area - the Westminster Abbey.
Westminster Abbey
was originally a Benedictine monastery.
Edward
the Confessor built a Norman-style church (consecrated 1065) on the
site of an older church there; this was pulled down in 1245 by Henry III
(except for the nave) and replaced with the present Gothic-style abbey
church. The rebuilding of the nave was begun by 1376 and continued
intermittently until Tudor times. The chapel of Henry VII (begun c.
1503) is noted for its exquisite fan vaulting.
Elizabeth I refounded the church as the Collegiate Church of St.
Peter in Westminster (1560). The
western towers (1745), by Nicholas Hawksmoor and John James, were the
last addition. Every British sovereign since William the Conqueror has
been crowned in the abbey except Edward V and Edward VIII. Many are also
buried there, and it is crowded with the tombs and memorials to other
famous Britons. Part of the southern transept is known as the Poets'
Corner, while the northern transept has memorials to statesmen.
