F INCOMPLETE PIER 37
PLAN OF PIER 37
ARCADE ON NORTH SIDE OF NAVE 38
EASTERN PART OF THE NORTH SIDE OF NAVE 39
NORTH NAVE ARCADE, WESTERN END 41
SOUTH NAVE ARCADE 43
SOUTH AISLE OF NAVE 45
HOLY WATER STOUP 46
NORTH AISLE OF NAVE 47
SAXON BALUSTER SHAFTS IN SOUTH TRANSEPT 50
DOORWAY IN SOUTH TRANSEPT 51
THE CROSSING LOOKING WESTWARD 54
THE CHOIR 55
THE WALLINGFORD SCREEN 58
KEY TO THE SCULPTURE 59
THE RAMRYGE CHANTRY 60
SOUTH AISLE OF PRESBYTERY 62
WOODEN FIGURE OF MENDICANT 63
RETRO-CHOIR 64
BASE OF THE SHRINE OF ST. AMPHIBALUS 65
BACK OF THE WATCHING LOFT 66
RAMRYGE'S CHANTRY FROM THE AISLE 67
ONE OF THE OLD WESTERN DOORS 68
LADY CHAPEL 69
PEDESTAL OF ST. ALBANS SHRINE 73
WATCHING LOFT 75
MONUMENT OF HUMPHREY, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER 77
SOUTH CHOIR AISLE 80
JOHN OF WHEATHAMPSTEAD'S CHANTRY 100
OLD FLOOR TILE 105
THE GREAT GATE 106
MONUMENT OF LORD BACON 109
THE OLD ROUND HOUSE 111
PLAN OF THE CATHEDRAL 116

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[Illustration: VIEW FROM THE NORTH-EAST BEFORE RESTORATION.]

[Illustration: ST. ALBANS ABBEY, BEFORE 1874.]

ST. ALBANS CATHEDRAL

CHAPTER I.

HISTORY OF THE BUILDING.

Long before any church stood on the site of the present cathedral, long
before the time of Albanus, who is universally allowed to have been the
first Christ