Chapter 2
St. Alban’s Abbey. S. Albanus Proto-Martyr Anglicanus
ARTISTS. ENGRAVERS. PAGE.
Steel Plate.—General View of St. Alban’s Abbey, from the South T. Allom. Adlard.
Piscina—with a Monk of the Order Prior. Smith.
Entrance to Our Lady’s Chapel, From the North. Prior. Smith.
The Nave of the Abbey Church, Showing the Saxon (or Norman) and Gothic Arches, the Great West Window, &c. Herman. Evans.
The Choir—with the Pulpit, Organ, Window of the North Transept, the Norman Arches, &c. Sargent. Evans.
The Shrine-Tomb of Humphrey the Good, Duke of Gloucester. Drawn By Mr. Beattie Gray.
The Duke’s Vault, with His Coffin and Skeleton, in their present state, under The Shrine Prior. Whimper.
The Entrance to the Lady Chapel, from the South Prior. Jackson.
The Ancient Altar of the Abbey, now in the South Aisle, with Pilgrims Archer. Gray.
The Gate-House, or Grand Entrance to the Abbey Court, from the Interior Sargent. Nicholles.
St. Peter’s Street, including the Abbey Tower, the Market-place, and the Town-hall Prior. Smith.
The entrance to the Lady Chapel, from the North Lane Prior. Jackson.
St. Michael’s Church, from the Churchyard Prior. Smith.
Monument and Statue of Lord Chancellor Bacon, in St. Michael’s Church Prior. Whimper.
Sopwell Nunnery in Ruins, with the Abbey Church in the background Sargent. Whimper.
Grand Entrance to the Abbey Church from the West, with the Distribution of Alms in the Cemetery Prior. Whimper.
Interior of the Lady Chapel—showing the public thoroughfare through the Outer Chapel Prior. Smith.
Arms of the Monastery of St. Albans Herman. Cook.