St Margaret's Church stands next to Westminster Abbey in London, in the shadow of the Houses of Parliament. It was founded in the Middle Ages by the Benedictine monks of the abbey so that local people could worship separately from the monastic community, and the present building was erected in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries in the Perpendicular Gothic style. Since the seventeenth century it has been the parish church of the House of Commons, and has been the setting for many weddings of notable people, including Winston Churchill in 1908 and Samuel Pepys in 1655. The explorer Walter Raleigh was buried in the church after his execution in 1618. Together with the abbey, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Before and after
- 1044Anawrahta founds the Pagan Empire in Burma
- c. 1048Origins of Oslo
- 18 May 1048Birth of Omar Khayyám
- 11th centuryConstruction of Modena Cathedral
- 11th centuryConstruction of St Margaret's Church, Westminster
- c. 1050sChaco Canyon becomes the centre of Ancestral Puebloan life
- 1051Construction of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
- 1054SN 1054
- July 1054East-West Schism
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The era
This moment belongs to the Medieval world (500 CE to 1500 CE), kingdoms, faiths and trade routes.