As well as the significance the Abbey plays in terms of coronations, it also serves as a burial place for many royals, dignitaries
and other distinguished figures.
That Clement Attlee, Jane Austen, Robert Baden-Powell, William Blake, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Benjamin Britten, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Geoffrey Chaucer, Sir Winston Churchill, Oliver Cromwell, Charles Dickens and George Eliot are all buried there is an indication of the incredible selection of icons that rest at Westminster Abbey.
They are joined by Sir Edward Elgar, William Gladstone, George Frederic Handel, John Keats, Martin Luther King, Rudyard Kipling, David Livingstone, Sir Isaac Newton, Laurence Olivier, William Pitt, William Shakespeare, Robert Stephenson, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Oscar Wilde and numerous other figures who have shaped the history of arts, literature, politics, science, music, exploration and various other areas.