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  2. St Albans Cathedral - Wikipedia

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    St Albans Cathedral, officially the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, [5] also known as "the Abbey", is a Church of England cathedral in St Albans, England. Much of its architecture dates from Norman times. It ceased to be an abbey following its dissolution in the 16th century and became a cathedral in 1877.

  3. St Albans - Wikipedia

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    St Albans Abbey was the principal medieval abbey in England. The scribe Matthew Vickers lived there and the first draft of Magna Carta was drawn up there. [citation needed] It became a parish church after the dissolution of the Benedictine abbey in 1539 and was made a cathedral in 1877. St Albans School was founded in AD 948.

  4. Architecture of the medieval cathedrals of England - Wikipedia

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    Four other churches are associated with this tradition: St John the Baptist's Church, Chester, Old St. Paul's Cathedral, London, Bath Abbey and the destroyed Benedictine Abbey of Coventry. The collegiate church of St John in Chester was raised to cathedral status in 1075, but became a co-cathedral in 1102, when the see was removed to Coventry ...

  5. 1070s in architecture - Wikipedia

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    1075 – Würzburg Cathedral reconstruction completed (begun in 1045). 1075 – Santiago de Compostela Cathedral in Galicia (Spain) begun. Tympanum dated 1078. 1077 – Abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen, Normandy consecrated. 1077 – Current Bayeux Cathedral, Normandy consecrated. 1077 – Construction of St Albans Cathedral begins in England. [4]

  6. History of St Albans - Wikipedia

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    St Albans on the 1 inch to the mile map Ordnance Survey map of 1944. In the inter-war years St Albans, in common with much of the surrounding area, became a centre for emerging high-technology industries, most notably aerospace. Nearby Radlett was the base for Handley Page Aircraft Company, while Hatfield became home to de Havilland.

  7. List of longest church buildings - Wikipedia

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    Note: this list is incomplete e.g. St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney is 107 metres long (ref. St. Mary's Cathedral website). Portugal's Alcobaça Monastery is 106 metres long. See also

  8. Abbot of St Albans - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of abbots of St Albans Abbey up to its Dissolution in 1539. Willegod (793–796) Eadric; ... History of Verulam (S.G.Shaw, 1815) This page was ...

  9. St. Alban's Church - Wikipedia

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    St Alban's Catholic Church, North Finchley, London; St Albans Cathedral, St Albans, Hertfordshire; St Alban's Church, Sneinton, Nottingham; St Alban's Church, Southampton; St Alban's Church, Tattenhall, Cheshire; St Alban's Church, Teddington, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames; St Alban's Church, Wallasey, Merseyside; St Alban's Church ...