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Excerpt from Restoration of St. Alban's Abbey: Report of George Gilbert Scott, Esq. R. A
As my report may fall into the hands of many who are unacquainted with this most venerable structure, I will beg your Lordship's permission brie?y to detail what you know so well as to the general outline of its architectural history and characteristics.
Of the romano-british Church erected in the days of Constantine over the grave of the proto-martyr it is need less to say that we have no existing remains. It was standing in the time of Bede, and still later in that of Offa; indeed it is not certain that it was wholly rebuilt by that King when he founded the Monastery; so that it may have remained incorporated in the anglo-saxon Church till the period when the present gigantic structure was erected; and its fragments, indistinguishable from the mass of Roman material of which the Church is so largely constructed, may yet form part of its venerable walls.
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