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Buildings and streets of historic interest

St Albans has a wide variety of distinctive buildings from different periods of its history. You can read about some of them here; we will be adding more in future.

  • Kingsbury Barn

    Kingsbury Barn

    Kingsbury Barn is one of an exceptional group of barns built to serve the estates of St Albans Abbey.
  • The Eleanor Cross of St Albans

    The Eleanor Cross of St Albans

    For hundreds of years, an Eleanor Cross stood in the market place of St Albans. Find out why, and what happened to it.
  • Town Drinking Fountain

    Town Drinking Fountain

    How Mrs Worley's fountain moved from Market Cross via Waterend Barn to Victoria Street.
  • The earliest known photo of St Albans?

    The earliest known photo of St Albans?

    How the Society acquired and dated the earliest known photograph of St Albans.
  • St Peters in the Borough – a long view on its natural, built and cultural environment

    St Peters in the Borough – a long view on its natural, built and cultural environment

    For most of the history of this area, the principal local administrative units were not boroughs but parishes, centred on ...
  • The former Mission Room, Old London Road

    The former Mission Room, Old London Road

    The old Mission Room was built to offer workers constructing the city's sewage system a more sober place than pubs in which to spend their spare time. But is there anything original in the current structure?
  • Sir Henry Blount and Tyttenhanger House

    Sir Henry Blount and Tyttenhanger House

    The chapel in Tyttenhanger House offers an intriguing glimpse into the character of its owner, Sir Henry Blount.
  • The rise and fall of Adelaide Street

    The rise and fall of Adelaide Street

    This article, based on a lecture given by Wendy Klein to the Society in March 2005, documents the rise and fall of Adelaide Street.
  • St Albans Corn Exchange – form and materials

    St Albans Corn Exchange – form and materials

    Dr Tony Berk discusses the unusual 'white' bricks used in the construction of the Corn Exchange, one of many built around the country following the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846.
  • St Albans Town Hall

    St Albans Town Hall

    Designed by George Smith and built in 1830, the Town Hall with its Neo-Classical style presented the inhabitants of St Albans with an edifice totally new to this country town.
  • Kingsbury Manor

    Kingsbury Manor

    The long history of Kingsbury Manor.
  • The Westminster Lodge Estate

    The Westminster Lodge Estate

    Everyone in St Albans is familiar with the name of the Westminster Lodge estate (which never included the land occupied by the eponymous leisure centre at the bottom of Holywell Hill). But what about its history?
  • Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough & her Almshouses

    Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough & her Almshouses

    The redoubtable Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, commissioned the Marlborough Almshouses which still stand on Hatfield Road.
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  • Buildings and streets of historic interest
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