The Cathedral of St Albans in Hertfordshire has a claim to be the most ancient of all Britain’s churches. The story of the settlement it serves can be traced back archaeologically into the Iron Age.

The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Albans is one of the oldest churches in Britain — and quite possibly the very oldest — but no building survives through hundreds of generations without change.

St Albans Cathedral is reputed to have the longest nave in Britain, and it is certainly an impressively long building stretching 1/6 mile from end to end. The present building was started in 1077 ...

Created by the renowned scribe, the Benedictine monk, Matthew Paris of St. Albans Abbey in England, the manuscript chronicles the life of St. Alban, the first Christian martyr in England.

"We will be reburying the earthly remains of Abbot John of Wheathampstead, one of the most influential 15th Century Benedictine abbots - abbot here at St Albans Abbey twice," she said. "This is an ...

"Through school services and engagement, the work of our education team, our choirs and our outreach and pastoral care, we see many hundreds of children each week." He added it wa ...

According to Stephen de Silva, St. Albans Cathedral’s longest-serving guide of more than 45 years, religious brothers who lived in the cathedral’s abbey in the 14th century invented the ...