Services

Sunday	Cathedral Eucharist 10.00; Choral Matins (term time only) 11.30; Choral Evensong 15.30
Weekdays	Choral Evensong 17.30 sung only during term time, said on Wed

Service Sheet www.herefordcathedral.org/worship/weekly-music-scheme

Facilities

Disabled: Wheelchair access to most of the cathedral

Guided tours: Daily in the summer months at 11.00 & 14.00; many specialist tours may be booked in advance

Refectory: The Cloister Cafe located in the 15th century Bishop's Cloister, open Monday-Saturday 10.00-16.45 (15.45 in winter); Sunday 11.00-15.45 (not in the winter)

Shop: Open Monday-Saturday 10.00-17.00 (16.00 in Winter); Sunday 11.00-15.45 (not in winter)

Website: www.herefordcathedral.org

E-mail address: office@herefordcathedral.co.uk

Telephone
Cathedral Office 01432 374200

Music

Organist & Director of Music
Geraint Bowen (since 2001)

Choir
The Cathedral Choir consists of 18 boy choristers & 6 Lay Clerks who take part in the famous Three Choirs Festival (280th in 2007), make recordings and have regular tours abroad. The Voluntary Choir, conducted by the Assistant Organist, sings when the Cathedral Choir is unavailable.

Organ

Father Willis 1892, rebuilt 1932 with new detached console on N side of Choir. Rebuilt Harrison & Harrison 1978, major refurbishment 2004

4 manuals 67 stops:

Pedal 14 stops, Choir 11 stops, Great 17 stops, Swell 14 stops, Solo 11 stops

http://www.herefordcathedral.org/music_organ.asp

Organ specification npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N09756

Cathedral

Dean
The Very Revd M E Tavinor (since )
Former Council member FCM

Bishop
The Right Revd Anthony M Priddis (since 2004)

Building

The Diocese of Hereford is one of the oldest in the country and a Cathedral has stood in Hereford since Saxon times. The present building holds fine examples of architecture from the Norman conquest to the present day, the building being constructed with local red sandstone. The Nave and Norman parts of the building were completed in the 12th century, the finest parts surviving intact being the Lady Chapel (1220–40), the North Transept (1250–87) and the early 14th‐c entury Crossing Tower. Much of the Nave was rebuilt by James Wyatt from 1786 after the collapse upon it of the Western Tower. In about 1842 Lewis Nockalls Cottingham rebuilt the Crossing and parts of the Nave and Chancel. George Gilbert Scott's wholesale restoration and reconstruction were from 1856 to 1863. Finally, Wyatt's West end was replaced in 1902–08 by John Oldrid Scott (1842–1 913) in a Decorated style.

The Cathedral's two most treasured possessions are its remarkable Chained Library, containing some very rare manuscripts and early printed volumes, and the Mappa Mundi (map of the world) dated about 1275 and probably the earliest map of its kind in existence.