Sujet

St Albans Cathedral, Hertfordshire, c1830. Artist: Anon

Légende

St Albans Cathedral, Hertfordshire, c1830. The great medieval abbey church of St Albans developed on the site of the shrine to St Alban, who died in 209 and was one of the earliest Christian martyrs. The church was bought by the townspeople of St Albans in 1553 to serve as their parish church after the abbey was closed by the Dissolution of the Monasteries. It gained cathedral status when St Albans was granted its City Charter in 1877. The building has the longest nave of any British cathedral.

Date

1830

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Notre référence

HRM19B02_377

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

30,0Mo (1,2Mo) / 33,6cm x 22,4cm / 3968 x 2642 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior building buildings England religious architecture country religion British cathedral English church color colour medieval Christian Christianity shrine spire Gothic location hertfordshire century Britain outside 19th century mediaeval Middle Ages martyr nineteenth century St Albans Guildhall Library & Art Gallery martyrdom St Albans Cathedral TGN watercolour Anon Anonymous St Alban Saint Alban cella