#x18;A splendid book #x13; the quintessential English church#x19; Simon Jenkins#x18;National cathedral, coronation church, royal mausoleum, burial place of poets, resting place of the great and of the Unknown Warrior, former home of the parliament, backdrop to royal weddings & Westminster Abbey unites many functions. Richard Jenkyns#x19; book is an ideal introduction to a building often taken for granted. The style is agreeable, the judgments intelligent and the perspective humane.#x19; Spectator#x18;I have gained a new appreciation even of the sepulchre architecture from the wonderful new book by Richard Jenkyns. It is called Westminster Abbey and the author is Oxford#x19;s Professor of the Classical Tradition, whatever that is. If Dr Jenkyns is an example of it, I#x19;m all for it.#x19; Daily Telegraph#x18;Jenkyns writes beautifully, and with keen perception, of a great church whose significance has grown in the past two centuries as the proper home, not just for coronations, but for national commemorations & the book is a pleasure to read and laced with wit & Jenkyns achieves that rare thing: he combines a shrewd scholar#x19;s eye with affection#x19; Church Times.