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St Albans Abbey is a Benedictine monastery founded in the tenth century on the site of a Roman settlement at Verulamium in Hertfordshire. The abbey became one of the most important religious houses in medieval England, exercising considerable influence over ecclesiastical and political affairs, and its abbots held seats in Parliament. The surviving conventual buildings, including the chapter house, cloister ranges, and ancillary structures, date primarily from the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries and demonstrate the substantial architectural investment in monastic infrastructure during the later medieval period. The site was extensively damaged during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the sixteenth century, though fragments of its stone buildings remain within the precinct and testify to the former scale and prominence of the establishment.
St Albans Abbey, site of conventual buildings is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1003526. View the official record →
St Albans Abbey is a Benedictine monastery founded in the tenth century on the site of a Roman settlement at Verulamium in Hertfordshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1003526.
St Albans Abbey, site of conventual buildings is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1003526.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Verulamium, part of wall and ditch of Roman city (0.3 km), St Albans Abbey Gatehouse (0.3 km), The Clock Tower (0.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of St Albans Abbey, site of conventual buildings's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
St Albans Abbey, site of conventual buildings stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.