History

Many a visitor asks "when was it built then?" as if our great cathedral sprang up overnight!

But even the most unobservant person visiting the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban is bound to realise that it bears the marks of different centuries. On one level this is the evolution of a great building. On another, it is the story of heroes and the occasional villain whose vision, or lack of it, causes us to gasp in wonder today.