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...honorable knight, Sir Isaac Newton......in London in 1727 and......his tomb in Westminster Abbey......Alexander Pope, friend and colleague..."I guess 'modern' is a relative term," Sophie called to Gettum.
Chpt 95-96

abbey = church
Newton was buried in Westminster Abbey, the seat of English Protestantism.
Chpt 95-96
More than three thousand people are entombed or enshrined within Westminster Abbey.
Chpt 97-98 *
Designed in the style of the great cathedrals of Amiens, Chartres, and Canterbury, Westminster Abbey is considered neither cathedral nor parish church.
Chpt 97-98
Even so, Robert Langdon currently felt no interest in any of the abbey's ancient history, save one event—the funeral of the British knight Sir Isaac Newton.
Chpt 97-98
Hurrying through the grand portico on the north transept, Langdon and Sophie were met by guards who politely ushered them through the abbey's newest addition—a large walk-through metal detector—now present in most historic buildings in London.†
Chpt 97-98
They both passed through without setting off the alarm and continued to the abbey entrance.†
Chpt 97-98
Stepping across the threshold into Westminster Abbey, Langdon felt the outside world evaporate with a sudden hush.†
Chpt 97-98
Langdon's and Sophie's eyes, like those of almost every visitor, shifted immediately skyward, where the abbey's great abyss seemed to explode overhead.†
Chpt 97-98
On sunny days, the abbey floor was a prismatic patchwork of light.†
Chpt 97-98
He had been anticipating a certain feeling of security in the popular tourist destination, but Langdon's recollections of bustling throngs in a well-lit abbey had been formed during the peak summer tourist season.†
Chpt 97-98
Westminster Abbey was a tangled warren of mausoleums, perimeter chambers, and walk-in burial niches.
Chpt 97-98

abbey = church
Keeping architectural tradition, the abbey was laid out in the shape of a giant crucifix.†
Chpt 97-98
Moreover, the abbey had a series of sprawling cloisters attached.†
Chpt 97-98
Without a word, Langdon led her another few steps to the center of the abbey and pointed to the right.†
Chpt 97-98
Sophie drew a startled breath as she looked down the length of the abbey's nave, the full magnitude of the building now visible.†
Chpt 97-98
He slipped the cryptex back in his pocket and watched warily as the visitors went to a nearby table, left a donation in the cup, and restocked on the complimentary grave-rubbing supplies set out by the abbey.†
Chpt 97-98
Armed with fresh charcoal pencils and large sheets of heavy paper, they headed off toward the front of the abbey, probably to the popular Poets' Corner to pay their respects to Chaucer, Tennyson, and Dickens by rubbing furiously on their graves.†
Chpt 97-98
His gaze dropped from the gilded altar down to the bright crimson robe of an abbey docent who was being waved over by two very familiar individuals.†
Chpt 97-98
As expected, the abbey's metal detectors had blared as the Teacher passed through with the concealed gun.†
Chpt 97-98
The Teacher recalled a small announcement sign he had seen on his way into the abbey.†
Chpt 97-98
Sophie moved directly to the sarcophagus, but Langdon hung back a few feet, keeping an eye on the abbey around them.†
Chpt 97-98
The garden is outside the abbey walls.†
Chpt 97-98
Langdon had once visited the abbey's famous College Garden—a small fruit orchard and herb garden—left over from the days when monks grew natural pharmacological remedies here.†
Chpt 97-98
Boasting the oldest living fruit trees in Great Britain, College Garden was a popular spot for tourists to visit without having to enter the abbey.†
Chpt 97-98
The cloisters looked deserted now, admittedly the abbey's least enticing section in the wind and rain.†
Chpt 97-98
When I saw you enter the abbey, I understood.†
Chpt 99-100
Westminster Abbey had been a short walk, and although Teabing's leg braces, crutches, and gun had set off the metal detector, the rent-a-cops never knew what to do.†
Chpt 99-100
He made the mistake of showing his ID when he entered the abbey.†
Chpt 101-102
Langdon thought of Leigh Teabing and Westminster Abbey.†
Chpt 105

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(1) (abbey)
a building where monks or nuns live or lived; or a church associated with such a building
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, Abbey can be a name.

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