It is again no question of expediency or feeling whether we shall preserve the buildings of past times or not. We have no right whatever to touch them. They are not ours.... It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have above insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, never can be recalled. — John Ruskin, "The Lamp of Memory" (1849)
- St Albans Cathedral and Abbey Church, Hertfordshire: A Case History in Victorian Restoration
- Exterior view
- Plain Wooden Nave and Decorated Choir Ceilings
- St Alban's Shrine
- Original porch at the west end
- Medieval Painted Cathedral Pillar
- Victorian tiles
- Stone bosses on the Lady Chapel ceiling
- altar in the Lady Chapel, with Grimthorpe's stained glass window
- Rose window in the north transept
- Baron Grimthorpe's grave
- Bust of Baron Grimthorpe
Related material
- Remains of the Roman theatre at St Albans (excavated 1847)
Last modified 29 September 2006