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Poets' Corner, one of the Abbey’s best known features, can be found in the South Transept. The last monarch to be buried in the Abbey was George II, in 1760. Here also is the vault where Charles II, William III and Mary II and Queen Anne lie, although none of these has a monument. Since 1066, the coronation of every English monarch has been held here, and among the 3,000 people buried within its precincts are no fewer than seventeen monarchs, including St Edward the Confessor (who was king from 1042 to 1066), Edward I, Richard II, Henry V (the young hero of Agincourt immortalised in the Shakespeare play), Henry VII, Elizabeth I (another favourite for fictional treatment) and her half-sister Mary I. The oldest parts of the Abbey date from 1050, and in the vestibule of the Chapter House you can see the oldest door in Britain.
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Despite appearances, the this is not a cathedral, but a church – although owned by the royal family (which explains why it survived King Henry VIII’s ruthless assault on monastic buildings during the Reformation). Packed with history, though, you won’t want miss the Abbey’s awesome interior.
#THE DA VINCI CODE CODE#
The Da Vinci Code film location: Looking for the tomb of Sir Isaac Newton: Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London Under suspicion, Langdon and Sophie Neveu ( Audrey Tautou) apparently flee the crime scene across the Pont du Carrousel. The Da Vinci Code was not the first film to shoot inside the Louvre: Audrey Hepburn poses for a fashion shoot here in Funny Face Vanessa Redgrave is awed by its statues in biopic Isadora Jean Luc Godard’s anarchic trio scoot through the galleries in Bande a Part – a scene later recreated in Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers more reverentially, its artworks are admired in Les Amants du Pont Neuf and in Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence.Īlthough the Louvre's courtyard briefly appears at the beginning of Wonder Woman, London's British Museum provides its interior for Patty Jenkins’s DC Universe movie. What does Fache know? Visit after dark and walk among the reflecting pools to see the illuminated Pyramid at its most seductive. IM Pei’s landmark glass Pyramid above the entrance – “a scar on the face of Paris” according to detective Bezu Fache ( Jean Reno) – was added in 1988, and the inverted Pyramid beneath finally added in 1993. The Da Vinci Code has had a profound impact on visitor numbers at the Chapel which grew to over 176,000 at their peak, allowing the Trust to complete its major conservation project.The Da Vinci Code film location: Robert Langdon is summoned to the murder scene: The Pyramid, Louvre, Paris In the film, the characters enter the Chapel by the west door and replica walls were created and temporarily put in place to keep the scaffolding out of view (see image above).Īfter filming, Tom Hanks said: ‘Few locations in film are so delightful and few destinations live up to their billing, but Rosslyn Chapel was all one could imagine or hope for.’ Most of the interior scenes of the Chapel were filmed here, and the main actors Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou, were on site for a few days. The aerial view of the Chapel in the film was based on a one-sixth scale model, specially created, because the Chapel itself was under scaffolding at the time. In 2006, a film was made, based on the book. It is estimated that 81 million copies of the book have been published, making it one of the most popular of all time. In the story, the main characters, Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu, investigate a murder in the Louvre and, in doing so, follow a set of clues to unravel a mystery, taking them to London and then to Rosslyn Chapel. Rosslyn Chapel came to worldwide prominence through The Da Vinci Code, a novel written by Dan Brown, which was published in 2003. ‘Rosslyn Chapel was all one could imagine or hope for.’ ‘When I decided to write The Da Vinci Code, I knew that its finale would have to take place at the most mysterious and magical chapel on earth - Rosslyn.’