The Cathedral of St Albans in Hertfordshire has a claim to be the most ancient ... but became instead the focus of a Christian cult to a martyr: St Alban. We know of his history by circuitous means.

St Albans Cathedral has spoken of the history of the hot cross bun, which is thought to have originated in the Hertfordshire city in the 14th Century. Brother Thomas Rocliffe, a monk at the abbey ...

[Read more: The history of St Alban — and how he inspired the creation of St Albans Cathedral] The procession of 1178 followed hard on the feast of Alban’s martyrdom on June 22. It was also connected ...

Under a brilliant blue sky, I set off for the thousand-year-old Cathedral and Abbey Church ... I headed off in search of more history. Because St. Albans wears its medieval heritage on its sleeve ...

As St Albans Cathedral's longest serving active guide, who is spending his 46th Christmas in the role, Stephen de Silva talks of the importance of telling its history and how he is still learning ...

According to a cathedral spokesman, the carving "reminds us the history of St Albans stretches forwards as well as backwards." The figure sports just a face, but with the mask, only its eyes are ...

to the shrine's new location in the cathedral's Chapel of the Four Tapers. "The masked figure reminds us that the history of St. Albans stretches forwards as well as backwards," Reverend Thompson ...

The history shown this year at the St Albans Cathedral was focused on the Renaissance, a period in the early 1400s, which was a huge explosion of creativity in knowledge and art. This light show ...

It also outlines the construction of St. Albans cathedral. The monastery at St ... "For the first time in history, this exquisite manuscript by one of the world’s most famous medieval artists ...

All was calm and bright at St Albans Cathedral. That is until a loud fire alarm was set off mid-service forcing 1,400 churchgoers to evacuate the premises. The Cathedral choir had just begun ...