St. Albans Cathedral interior west end

Photographer

De Smet, Arthur

Date

• June 2008

Summary

• The original west end was rebuilt in the late 1800's by Lord Grimthorpe. The Decorated Gothic window is heavily cusped nine light with two outer subarches over three windows each The inner three cinquefoiled arches are beneath a complex encircled set of nine sexfoils. Each sexfoil is encircled around radiating spokes. The stained glass was installed in 1925 to commemorate the British soldiers who died in World War I.