st.albans cathedral

st.albans cathedral

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st.alban martyred 209 a.d. shrine late c4 benedictine abbey c11 cathedral 1877
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net vault rising from tiny lion heads in niche beside cloister door in south nave aisle , later c14
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late c14 royal arms with france ancient above cloister doorway in south nave aisle
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late c13 wooden boss from vault over feretory
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shrine base of st.alban, 1302-8
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wooden carving glimpsed inside the watching loft:- quis custodiet etc.?
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scene of harvest from watching loft in feretory, early c15
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the wooden vault over the east end - here the feretory - dates from the late c13. the heraldry and painted symbols of john the baptist and john the evangelist date from the mid c15 time of abbot john of wheathampstead
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mural in the arches east of the feretory, c.1330 of a bishop saint, probably wulfstan of worcester
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south chancel aisle vaults, c13 in first bay, c11 norman further west
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c11 vault in south chancel aisle, when this was one of three apsidal ended chapels in echelon coming off the south transept, with the window opening to the next chapel
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c11 bay in south chancel aisle , with norman brickwork between this chapel and the next in echelon pierced by a later c13 opening, probably after the other chapels were demolished.
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ramryge chantry of 1515
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poor box of 1665
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ramryge chantry of c.1519
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ramryge chantry of c.1519
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ramryge chantry of c.1519. the supporters are rams with the letters ryge around their collars
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erronious late c17 claim above chantry of abbot wallingford, claiming it as the last resting place of abbot john of wheathampstead
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detail of chantry of abbot wallingford, + 1484, edge of vault
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