All Saints--fine Perpendicular font. St. Michael-at-Thorn--Norman doorway, curious registers. St. Peter, Mancroft; St. Gregory, Pottergate; St. Giles, St. Helen's, St. John the Baptist, St. Michael-at-Plea. The Stranger's Hall is well worthy of a visit, and Norwich abounds in objects of the greatest interest. The old "Maid's Head" hotel is one of the most ancient and interesting hostels in the kingdom. PRINCIPAL BUILDING DATES Norman (1091-1145)--Choir, transept with chapels, nave and tower. Early English (1244-1257)--Door of Lady Chapel. (1278-1299)--Ethelbert's gate, east walk of cloisters. Decorated (1299-1369)--Chapter-house and cloisters, clerestory of presbytery, Chapel of St. Mary-the-Less, some windows. Perpendicular (1420-1538)--West front altered, Erpingham Gate, presbytery restored, vault of nave and transepts, spire, screen, stalls, some windows, Bishop's Gate. (1573-1859)--Chapter-house and Lady Chapel destroyed. [Illustration PLAN OF NORWICH CATHEDRAL] FOOTNOTES: [19] _Registrum Primum._ [20] The restorers have been very busy here, and most of the windows are imitations of Norman work. ST. ALBAN'S CATHEDRAL St. Albans, the ancient Verulam, is one of the most ancient towns in England, and is replete with historical associations. It was the home of the British chieftain Cassivellaunus before the Romans came. Boadicea killed many of the people for loving the Romans; and soon came Christianity, and then the record of the slaying of St. Alban, Britain's proto-martyr. It was during the Diocletian persecution that Alban sheltered a deacon named Amphibalus from the fury of the oppressors, and was himself converted to the Christian faith. Alban enabled his guest to escape, and was himself seized and slain, many miracles taking place at his execution. Offa founded a monastery here in 793, near his manor-house--of which the earthworks remain--and dedicated it to the saint, finding the remains of the martyr, which he placed in a reliquary and deposited in the church. The monks introduced here were Benedictine, of which order this was the chief house in the kingdom. The town increased, and Ulsi, the sixth abbot, founded the three churches of SS. Peter, Michael, and Stephen. We need not dwell on the records of Saxon abbots, many of whom were of Royal descent. When the Normans came, Paul of Caen, a relative of Lanfranc, was made abbot in 1077, and rebuilt the church, using the Roman town of Verulam as a quarry. He found much material collected by the last two Saxon abbots, who intended to build a new church, but were prevented by the troubles of the time. The large amount of Roman tiles used in the construction of the building is apparent. Much of his work remains in the eastern portion of the nave and in the tower and transepts. The church was dedicated during the rule of Abbot Richard