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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Fountains Abbey, St Albans Cathedral, Sherborne Abbey, Pershore Abbey, Buckfast Abbey, Malmesbury Abbey, Byland Abbey, Newstead Abbey, Mount Grace Priory, Christchurch Priory, Roman Catholic Diocese of Dresden-Meissen, Worksop Priory, Leeds Priory, Bury St Edmunds Abbey, Osney Abbey, Hyde Abbey, Dunster Priory, Shaftesbury Abbey, Hanthawaddy Kingdom, Crowland Abbey, St Mary's Abbey, York, Hailes Abbey, Haughmond Abbey, Binham Priory, Keynsham Abbey, Beauvale Charterhouse, St. John's Abbey, Colchester, Thornton Abbey, Burton Abbey, Witham Charterhouse, Taunton Priory, Thorney Abbey, Blanchland Abbey, Winchcombe Abbey, Wherwell Abbey, Dunkeswell, Hinton Priory, Templecombe Preceptory, Winchester Cathedral Priory, Breamore Priory, St Mary's Abbey, Winchester, Cerne Abbey, Colchester Abbey, Hartland Abbey, Wallingwells Priory, Yemen Eyalet. Excerpt: St Albans Cathedral (formerly St Albans Abbey, officially The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban) is a Church of England cathedral church at St Albans, England. At 84 metres (276 ft), its nave is the longest of any cathedral in England. With much of its present architecture dating from Norman times, it became a cathedral in 1877 and is the second longest cathedral in the United Kingdom (after Winchester). Local residents often call it "the abbey," although the present cathedral represents only the church of the old Benedictine abbey. The abbey church, although legally a cathedral church, differs in certain particulars from most of the other cathedrals in England: it is also used as a parish church, of which the dean is rector. He has the same powers, responsibilities and duties as the rector of any other parish. Alban was a pagan living in the Roman city of Verulamium, where St Albans is now, in Hertfordshire, England, about 22 miles (35 km) north of London along Watling...
