What to see
A site worth seeing
What to see and do at St Alban cathedral.
The Shrine of St Alban (1308)
The shrine of St AlbanThe second restoration was completed in 1993 and the shrine was rededicated in the presence of HM The Queen Mother in that year.
The shrine is a site of national pilgrimage and is used as a place of prayer and meditation by visitors every day.
Like many of England's shrines, it was demolished at the dissolution of the monasteries.
The Purbeck marble pedestal was relocated in various locations in the Abbey in more than 2000 fragments.
The niches in the shrine may well be healing holes.
The altar and iron-work around the shrine, designed by Mr George Pace, a former Cathedral Architect, were dedicated in 1967 as memorial gifts.
Photograph used with the kind permission of The Fraternity of The Friends of St Albans Abbey.
