Abbey musicians such as Henry Purcell were also buried in their place of work. Subsequently it became one of Britain's most significant honours Properties to rent in Kent to be buried or commemorated here.[8]

The practice spread from aristocrats and poets to generals, admirals, Properties to rent in Kent politicians, scientists, and doctors.

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Burials and memorials

Main article: Westminster Abbey Burials and Memorials

Henry III rebuilt the Abbey in honour of the Royal Saint Edward the Confessor whose relics were placed in a Properties to rent in Kent shrine in the sanctuary and now lie in a burial vault beneath the 1268 Cosmati mosaic pavement, in front of the High Altar. Henry III was interred nearby in a superb chest tomb with effigial monument, as were many of the Plantagenet kings of England, their wives and other relatives.

Subsequently, most Kings and Queens of England were buried here, although Henry VIII and Charles I are Properties to rent in Kent buried in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, as are all monarchs and royals after George II.
The cloister.

Properties to rent in Kent - aristocrats were buried inside chapels and monks and people associated with the Abbey were buried in the Cloisters and other areas. One of these was Geoffrey Chaucer, who was buried here as he had apartments in the Abbey where he was employed as master of the Kings Works.

Other poets were buried or memorialized around Chaucer in what became known as Poets' Corner. These include: William Blake, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, John Dryden, George Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Thomas Gray, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, John Masefield, Properties to rent in Kent John Milton, Laurence Olivier, Alexander Pope, Nicholas Rowe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Shadwell, William Shakespeare, Alfred Lord Tennyson and William Wordsworth.