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John J. Pershing in 1921 to honor England's WWI dead. Closer to the door, also on the
floor, is a memorial to a hero of World War II, Winston Churchill.
• Now walk straight up the nave toward the altar. This is the same route every future mon-
arch walks on the way to being crowned. Midway up the nave, you pass through the col-
orful screen of an enclosure known as the...
Choir
These elaborately carved wood and gilded seats are where monks once chanted their ser-
vices in the “quire”—as it's known in British churchspeak. Today, it's where the Abbey
boys' choir sings the evensong. You're approaching the center of a cross-shaped church.
The
“high” (main) altar
(which usually has a cross and candlesticks atop it) sits on the
platform up the five stairs in front of you.
• It's on this platform—up the five steps—that the monarch is crowned.
