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Title: Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans
With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey

Author: Thomas Perkins

Release Date: October 8, 2006 [eBook #19494]

Language: English

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THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF SAINT ALBANS

With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey

by the

REV. THOMAS PERKINS, M.A.
Rector of Turnworth, Dorset

Author of "Rouen," "Amiens," "Wimborne and Christchurch," Etc., Etc.

With Fifty Illustrations

[Illustration: ST. ALBANS CATHEDRAL FROM THE SOUTH.]

[Illustration: ARMS OF THE SEE]

London: George Bell and Sons. 1903

PREFACE

The Rev. W.D. Sweeting, who had originally undertaken to write this
monograph on St. Albans, having been obliged, on account of ill-health,
to abandon the work, the Publishers asked me to write it in his stead.
My task was rendered much easier by Mr. Sweeting kindly sending me much
material that he had collected, and many valuable notes that he had
made, especially on the history of the Abbey.

My best thanks are due to the Dean for kindly allowing me permission to
examine every part of the Cathedral church, and to take the photographs
with which this book is illustrated. A