Here is the North wall constructed six feet to the North of this side of the church that was built in the 1400s, thereby widening the nave.   There is a sequence of glass windows, the first of which was made in 1934 for the church of St John, on the Old London Road in St Albans – it was moved here in the 1950s. This window shows Jesus as the Good Shepherd.  The remaining 12 windows (called ‘medallions’) are from a much earlier age.  These are difficult to understand and interpret because they contain a jumbled collection of ancient glass.  The original windows were smashed during conflicts and major upheavals in St Albans and across Europe. These windows probably also reflect a lack of care for the church at various times and, of course, the demolition of the old north Wall and its replacement may have also contributed to damage.  Even one of St Peter’s vicars is said to have smashed some of these windows. The medallions which you see before you are, then, a result of an effort to reassemble the windows. Each of the medallions has been carefully studied so that what they depict is now known to some extent.

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