Dana on Buckingham
Gate Road,  11:58 am

 Matt on Birdcage Walk,
just east of Buckingham Palace

walking east toward the Abbey

taking an important call with the Abbey towers in the background

12:10 pm

There's our friend
Benjamin behind me.

Almost every British ruler
has been crowned here since
William the Conqueror in 1066.

 I hear ya knockin'
but you can't come in.

Check the January 2006 galleries;
there are pics of me at this same door.

You're not allowed to
snap pics inside the Abbey...

...so I snuck a few.  Sshhh!

The Lady Chapel has a spectacular
fan-vaulted roof with carved pendants.

Like a Prayer: the carving
atop a tomb in the Chapel
of St. John the Baptist

monument to the
King of Chillin' Out

the stained glass rose
window in the north transept

This monument to Shakespeare presides over Poet's Corner.

Dana in front of the cloister garth

The cloister garth is the
yard between the Abbey
and the monks' quarters.

in the corridor next to the garth

1:53 pm

The abbey is designed
in the shape of a cross.

Dana inside the Chapter House...

...which is located in the east
cloister and dates from the 1250s.

The monks met here daily
for prayers and to
discuss the day's work.

outside the Chapter House

Let's see if the monks hate the pop-in as much as we do.

the Pyx Chamber, made into a
treasury in the 13th century

looking through the gate
at the "little cloister"

The little cloister and its garden were inaccessible this day.

2:22 pm

sneaking more photos
inside the nave