Hereford Cathedral

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hereford Cathedral
Northwest Cathedral
The shrine in Hereford Cathedral that held Cantilupes' bones from 1287 to 1349

The Hereford Cathedral (Engl. Cathedral of Saint Mary the Virgin and Saint Ethelbert the King ) is the Episcopal Church ( Cathedral ) of the Anglican Diocese of Hereford in Hereford , England .

history

The Diocese of Hereford was established in 676 from cessions of territory from the Diocese of Lichfield . It was probably the burial church of St. Æthelberht II of East Anglia and was also dedicated to this. The first cathedral was destroyed by the Welsh in 1056. The subsequent Norman-Gothic cathedral was built in the 12th to 14th centuries and was largely financed by donations from pilgrims who made a pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Thomas de Cantilupe (canonized in 1320). His tomb, now empty, is in the left transept, which also houses the Perpendicular Style Stanbury Chapel . Towards the end of the 14th century, Cantilupes became less popular. The last Roman Catholic bishop, Robert Parfew, died on September 22, 1558. The Catholic diocese of Hereford was subordinate to the Archdiocese of Canterbury as a suffragan. Hereford Cathedral has been the episcopal church of the Anglican diocese of Herford since the Reformation in England. The west front of the cathedral was rebuilt in neo-Gothic style by James Wyatt after it collapsed in 1786 .

particularities

The cathedral's most famous treasure is the Mappa Mundi , a medieval map of the world created around 1300 by Richard von Haldingham and Lafford. The card is since 2007 the UNESCO - World Heritage documents entered tab. A second specialty is the chain library with more than 1440 volumes.

Web links

Commons : Hereford Cathedral  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • GE Aylmer, JE Tiller (Eds.): Hereford Cathedral: A history. Hambledon Press, London, Rio Grande, Ohio 2000, ISBN 1-8528-5194-5
  • G. R. Crone: The Hereford Map. In: Royal Geographic Society Journal. 1948, ISBN 0-902447-10-6 .
  • Scott D. Westrem: The Hereford map. A transcription and translation of the legends with commentary. Turnhout, Brepols 2001. (Reduced facsimile of the Hereford mappa mundi; all legends in Latin and English, annotated)
  • Dan Terkla: The Original Placement of the Hereford mappa Mundi. In: Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography. Vol. 56, No. 2, 2004, pp. 131-151.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hereford Cathedral: Pilgrimage at Hereford Cathedral. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 22, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.herefordcathedral.org
  2. ↑ Hereford Mappa Mundi. Retrieved November 27, 2018 .


Coordinates: 52 ° 3 '15.1 "  N , 2 ° 42' 57.6"  W.