London, Westminster Abbey 2

Westminster started life in the early 960s as an abbey for Benedictine monks. Then Edward the Confessor came along and wanted a royal burial church so he greatly expanded the once humble abbey, work which completed in 1065. Later Henry III wanted it to be even more fancy, so he added further construction and facade updates. He died before it was done, and it was Richard II who oversaw the completion in 1517 where it became what we see today.