The Project Gutenberg eBook, Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans, by Thomas Perkins

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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ST. ALBANS CATHEDRAL FROM THE SOUTH.

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

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 few illustrations only are from other sources, among them those on pages 9 and 11, for permission to use which I have to thank Mr. John Murray. I have also to acknowledge the courtesy of the vergers, Mr. Newell and Miss Davis from both of whom I obtained much information; Miss Davis's long connection with the church, and the interest she takes in every detail connected with it, rendered her help most valuable. I have consulted many books on the Abbey, among them Lord Grimthorpe's and Mr. Page's Guides, Mr. James Neale's "Architectural Notes on St. Albans Abbey," and papers read before the St. Albans Archaeological Society by the Rev. Henry Fowler.

THOMAS PERKINS.

TURNWORTH.
July, 1903.

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