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Eileen Roberts.
The Hill of the Martyr: An Architectural History of St. Albans Abbey.

Published Dunstable: The Book Castle, 1994 (hardback was 1993).
ISBN 1871199263;
ISBN-13: 9781871199260.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Alden Press, Oxford.
Size: 156x233x22mm.
Page count: xvi,293pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some scuffs and indentations on the covers, a bit of wear at the edges and corners; the spine is a little faded but not creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking.


This item £6.50
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[Publisher’s price £12.99]
Weight without packaging: 717g.

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No overall medieval emphasis. Contents: Let these stones speak; The Norman abbey; Premier abbey of England — John de Cella — William de Trumpington & Walter of Colchester; Indian summer [later medieval period]; Hidden centuries — dissolution to early 19th; Restoration & a new role [19th c.]; 20th century.
Appendix: List of officiating clergy.

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: 96, monochrome
Maps & plans: 8
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: yes
Bibliography: 1 page general, plus references at end of each chapter
Index: yes


See also | Cathedrals & abbey churches | Architecture | Hertfordshire (local history) |

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