Plain Wooden Nave and Decorated Choir Ceilings

St Albans Cathedral and Abbey Church

Hertfordshire

Fifteenth century

Before the Victorian so-called restoration, the fifteenth-century pattern of royal shields and sacred monographs on the choir ceiling had run the full length of the nave.

Additional material: the history and restoration of the Cathedral with more images

Photograph and text 2006 by Jacqueline Banerjee.

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