He built Westminster Abbey

Edward the Confessor is notable for having commissioned the construction of Westminster Abbey, one of London's most recognizable structures today. St. Edward the Confessor, the penultimate Saxon king of England, started construction on Westminster Abbey, which is situated close to the existing Houses of Parliament, not long after his coronation in 1042. In order to supervise the building of his new Abbey, he also constructed a palace close by.

It was begun in 1042 as a royal burial church and is the first Norman Romanesque structure in England. After Edward died in 1090, the church was completed, but it was destroyed in 1245 to make room for King Henry III's new structure, which is the one we can still see today. Even though Edward wasn’t particularly interested in the arts, the building of Westminster Abbey helped develop English Romanesque architecture and made him into an important patron of the church.