Where is Hereford Cathedral?

Hereford Cathedral is in the West Midlands, United Kingdom.

When was Hereford Cathedral built?

Dates from the medieval period.

Is Hereford Cathedral a listed building?

Hereford Cathedral is officially recognised as Grade I listed.

Cathedrals · West Midlands

Hereford Cathedral

Also known as: Eglwys Gadeiriol Henffordd

Norman & medieval

Home of the Mappa Mundi and the Chained Library — two unique medieval survivals.

Hereford Cathedral from the Vicars' Choral College - geograph.org.uk - 8050339 — Philip Halling — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

Plan your visit

Typical visit: 1 h–2 h
Best time of year: Year-round

Hereford Cathedral on the River Wye holds two of medieval England's most extraordinary survivals: the Mappa Mundi (the largest medieval map of the world, c.1300, depicting Jerusalem at the centre with England in the bottom-left corner) and the Chained Library — 229 medieval manuscripts and books still chained to the original 17th-century shelves. The cathedral itself is mostly Norman.

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From the Wikipedia article

Hereford Cathedral, formally the Cathedral of Saint Mary the Virgin and Saint Ethelbert the King in Hereford, is a Church of England cathedral in Hereford, England. It is the seat of the bishop of Hereford and the principal church of the diocese of Hereford. The cathedral is a grade I listed building. A place of worship has existed on the site of the present building since the 8th century or earlier. The present building was begun in 1079. Substantial parts of the building date from both the Norman and the Gothic periods. The cathedral has the largest library of chained books in the world, its most famous treasure being the Mappa Mundi, a medieval map of the world created around 1300. The map is listed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.

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Background

History

The cathedral is dedicated to two saints, St Mary the Virgin and St Ethelbert the King. The latter was beheaded by Offa, King of Mercia, in the year 794. Offa had consented to give his daughter to Ethelbert in marriage: why he changed his mind and deprived him of his head historians do not know, although tradition is at no loss to supply him with an adequate motive. The execution, or murder, is said to have taken place at Sutton, four miles (6 km) from Hereford, with Ethelbert's body brought to the site of the modern cathedral by "a pious monk". He was buried at the site of the cathedral. At Ethelbert's tomb miracles were said to have occurred, and in the next century (about 830) Milfrid, a…

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Coordinates: 52.0531, -2.7150
Address: Hereford, Herefordshire
Official site: www.herefordcathedral.org

Sources

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