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Friends' Publications

The following publications may be purchased directly from the Cathedral Bookstall, or by post from the Friends. Please write to:

The Editor,
The Alban Link,
c/o The Cathedral & Abbey Church of St Alban
Sumpter Yard,
St Albans,
Herts, AL1 1BY

Please enclose a cheque made out to "The Fraternity of the Friends of St Albans Abbey". Please add 50p to the price given below (unless otherwise stated) to cover postage and packing.

2011 Christmas Cards

Christmas Cards are available to purchase from the Cards for Good Causes stall, the Cathedral bookstall or by post from the Friends (detailed above). The designs and other details are listed below.

Posting & Packaging prices are as follows
1 to 4 packs: £3.00
5 to 11 packs: £5.00
12 to 20 packs: £8.00

St Albans Abbey from Waxhouse Gate

An oil painting reproduced by Dennis Owen.
Reproduced with kind permission.

Message inside reads "Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year".

Pack contains 10 cards and envelopes.

Price - £3.95

St Albans Cathedral at Christmas

Message inside reads "Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year".

Pack contains 10 cards and envelopes.

Price - £3.95

The Angel greets the Shepherds

From the Albani Psalter written at St Albans 1123 - 1135 for Christina of Markyate.
Copyright: Dombibliothek Hildesheim and reproduced with kind permission.

Message inside reads "Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year".

Pack contains 10 cards and envelopes.

Price - £3.95

St Albans Cathedral from Verulamium

Photograph: Donato Cinicolo.

Message inside reads "Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year".

Pack contains 10 cards and envelopes.

Price - £3.95

Best Sellers

The Organs and Musicians of St Albans Cathedral

Andrew Lucas, 2009 £6.95 (p & p £1.50 per order)

St Albans: Cathedral and Abbey

Martin Biddle, Birthe Kyolbe-Biddle, Iain Lane, John McNeill, James, Clark, Jane Kelsall, Jeffrey John £14.95, (p and p £3.50 per order)

Images of Alban

Eileen Roberts. 1999 £7.50 (add £1 for p & p)

The Wall Paintings of St Albans Abbey

Eileen Roberts. 1993 £3.00 (add 75p for p & p)

Victorian History of the County of Hertfordshire: City of St Albans, Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Albans

£3.50 (add 75p for p and p)

Christopher of St Alban's Cathedral: A Young Person's Guide

Robin Ollington, with illustrations by Albany Wiseman, 2004 £4.99 (add 75p for p and p)

St Amphibalus Shrine Symposium, 2004

Martin Biddle, Richard K. Morris and Richard Lithgow £5.00

"An Astrologian, a Mathematician, a Musitian, and What Not": John Dunstable and the Alban Motet

Hilary Corke, 1997 £1.50

Hugh of Eversden the Friendly Abbot: Abbot of St Alban's Abbey, 1308-27

Thomas of Walsingham, contemporary chronicler of the Abbey
Translated from the Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani by David Preest, with introduction and notes by Michelle Still. 1998. £2.50

A Short Graffiti Tour of St Albans Abbey

Michael Rose, Gail Thomas & Joyce Wells, 2004 £1.30

The High Altar Screen of the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban

Jane Kelsall, 1999. £ 3.50

The Precinct of St Albans Abbey. 1539-1999

Frank Kilvington, 2000 £ 2.00

Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, 1391-1447

Jane Kelsall. 2000 £ 3.00

Latin Inscriptions in St Albans Abbey

Patrick O'Keeffe, 2001 £2.50

The Stained Glass Windows of St Alban's Cathedral

£1.00

The Bells of St Albans Cathedral

£1.00