St Albans is a cathedral city in Hertfordshire which was known as Verulamium when the Romans occupied it. Its name comes from the first British saint, Alban. After the Romans left in 410 AD, the bricks from their ruined buildings were used as building materials for the new town of St Albans and the cathedral. The town was granted city status in 1877. The Waterstones is located in the main shopping area in a three-storey read bricked building. Sadly I haven’t managed to find anything about the building’s history.
Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban
St Albans Abbey was founded in Norman times but ceased to be an Abbey after the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the sixteenth century. It was made a cathedral in 1877 and has the longest nave of any English cathedral at 85 metres in length. I found the nave to be restful and quite simple in its décor, but behind that, the rest of the cathedral is packed with exquisite and colourful features.
Janet's Adventures in Waterstones 