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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.
The medieval town grew on the hill to the east of Wæclingacaester where the Benedictine Abbey of St Albans was founded by Ulsinus in 793. [14] There is some evidence that the original site was higher up the hill than the present building, which was begun in 1077. St Albans Abbey was the principal medieval abbey in England.
The cathedral building itself was an abbey church (part of St Albans Abbey) prior to the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Following its purchase by the town in 1553, it was then a parish church until its elevation to cathedral status in 1877, when the diocese was created from the diocese of Rochester under Queen Victoria by the Bishopric of St ...
Richard Fox (fl. 1448) was a lay clerk at the abbey of St Albans, where he served as chamberlain to Abbott John Whethamstede.He is notable for compiling, amongst other texts, an expanded version of the Brut chronicle, which is especially important for including contemporary accounts of the Parliament of Bury and of the death of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester.
Sometime between 1077 and 1091, Robert D'Oyly, lord of Wallingford, gave the collegiate Church of Holy Trinity to St Albans Abbey. Paul, 14th Abbot of St Albans, sent some of his monks to establish a cell there. Holy Trinity served as both the priory and parochial church. The monks of Wallingford are known to have ministered to the sick. The ...
The priory was built c. 1140 by the Benedictine abbot of St Albans Abbey, Geoffrey de Gorham on the site of an old hermitage. It was founded as the Priory of St Mary of Sopwell and was a dependency of St Albans Abbey. [1] The church was on the north side of the cloister with a chapter house and dormitory on the east side.
Wulsin (also known as Abbot Ulsinus) was a ninth- or tenth-century abbot of St Alban's Abbey, England. According to the 13th-century chronicler Matthew Paris, in 948 he founded St Albans School, which is still active. Abbot Wulsin (Ulsinus) also founded the St Albans Market in an attempt to establish a settlement within the confines of the ...
Later he was prior of St Albans and was elected abbot of Peterborough in 1200. He died in 1210. c. 1200 Hugh Gubiun 1208 c. 1217 Ralph Gubiun Previously prior of Binham. Resigned c. 1217 and retired to St Albans. He died on 4 May 1223. 1224 William de Bedford Elected prior of Worcester and admitted on 21 November 1224. He died on 29 October 1242.