Westminster Abbey had become the coronation site…

Westminster Abbey had become the coronation site of Norman kings, but none are buried here until Henry III, intensely devoted to the cult of Edward the Confessor, rebuilds the Abbey in Anglo-French Gothic style as a shrine to honor the Confessor and as a suitably regal setting for Henry's own tomb, under the highest Gothic nave in England. (The Confessor's shrine will subsequently play a great part in his canonization.)

Construction of the transepts, east end, and part of the nave is complete by 1258.