Westminster Abbey is on one side, the
Houses of Parliament on the other. The buildings of the Houses of
Parliament is not old, it dates only from the 19th century, and is in
the Gothic style. When the Parliament has a sitting a flag flies from
the Victoria Tower. It is the national flag of the United Kingdom.
Another tower, the Clock Tower, is famous for the hour bell and the
clock named "Big Ben”. Only a short way from the Houses of Parliament
there is one of the most beautiful of all English buildings – W.A.,
founded in the 11th century. There are many tombstones, monuments and
statues there. For nearly 1000 years all the Kings and Queens of England
– 41 in all – have been crowned here. If u go past the magnificent
tombstones of kings and queens, some made of gold and precious stones u
will come to the Poets’ Corner. There many of the greatest writers were
buried. Geoffrey Chauser, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Alfred
Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling. Burns and Byron, Walter Scott
and the great American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Here in the
Abbey there is also the Grave of the Unknown Warrior that commemorate
the men who died on the First World War.
The square has a lot of statues
including Richard the Pion-Hearted, and Oliver Cromvell. It also has the
masterpiece of Sir Henry Mur – the statue of Sir Winston Churchill.
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