1065
The Bayeux Tapestry shows Edward the Confessor’s body being carried to his new church of St Peter at Westminster, January 1066.Image: Image on web site of Ulrich Harsh. · Public domainculture · Europe
Westminster Abbey is consecrated
Edward the Confessor had rebuilt the Benedictine abbey of St Peter at Westminster on a grand scale, in the new Romanesque style from Normandy, next to his palace by the Thames. It was consecrated on Holy Innocents’ Day, 28 December 1065, but the king was too ill to attend. He died a few days later and was buried before the high altar. William the Conqueror was crowned there a year later, and every crowned English and British monarch since has been crowned in the abbey, which was rebuilt again in Gothic style from 1245.
Source: Westminster Abbey: Edward the Confessor and Edith ↗
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