inside the abbey

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{westminster abbey}

- sir issac newton - 
it's so big you honestly might walk right by him (i did), but ask one of the guides and they'll surely point him out

- elizabeth warren - 
i'm not really sure who she was (and neither does wikipedia apparently) but she had the most fabulous inscription on her gravestone that talked about how she was such an upstanding lady and full of charity

- joseph gascoigne nightingale - 
you won't want to miss this guy's tomb, complete with statues of death trying to attack mr. nightingale and an angel

- william wilburforce - 
i surely hope he looked exactly like the statue that stood atop his grave, that quizzical brow couldn't have just been the stone mason taking some artistic license 

- jane austen - 
her marker is tiny and rather unceremoniously shoved into a corner 

- charles dickens - 
also has a small grave marker, what's up with this?  do these people hate literature?

** other tidbits about westminster?

- go to henry VIII's lady chapel, look around at eye level for awhile and then ignore everything else and look at the ceiling, the stonework is fantastic

- while you're over by the lady chapel definitely check out both the tombs of elizabeth I and mary queen of scotts

- and you might notice that while our good friend winston churchill has a lovely memorial in his honor at the abbey, he actually is not buried here
his reason?
he didn't want people 'walking all over him'