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Running a Greek Club – The Hereford Cathedral School Experience [PDF]
The Journal of Classics Teaching, 2015 Last autumn, Hereford Cathedral School began an after-school Greek Club open to state-school pupils from across Hereford. This article aims to provide some ideas about what works and how best to foster interest in Greek and Greek culture.
Anne Wright
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“A triumph of art” or “blatant vulgarity”: The Reception of Scott and Skidmore’s Screens
British Art Studies, 2017 This essay provides a broad narrative of how the screens designed by architect and designer George Gilbert Scott and made by metalworker Francis Skidmore for the cathedrals of Hereford, Lichfield, and Salisbury, have been regarded since they were ...
Alicia Robinson
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Liturgy and Music in Hereford Cathedral in the Time of Queen Victoria and Beyond
British Art Studies, 2017 The Victorian Gothic Revival and its focus on liturgical neo-medievalism inspired the 1860s restoration of the medieval Hereford Cathedral. In this restoration, the new screen played a central part.
Tessa Murdoch
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The Hereford Screen: A Prehistory
British Art Studies, 2017 This paper explores two contexts for Francis Skidmore and George Gilbert Scott's screen at Hereford Cathedral. First, it locates the screen within a succession of choir screens at Hereford from the middle ages to the present, thereby charting the ...
The Hereford Screen: A Prehistory
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Resurrection, Re-Imagination, Reconstruction: New Viewpoints on the Hereford Screen
British Art Studies, 2017 The Hereford Screen is one of the most complex and intricate choir screens of the Victorian era. Positioned in the gallery of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s main entrance, its glistening metalwork, brass, and terracotta effect surfaces, incrustations ...
Ayla Lepine
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Four Scottish indulgences at Sens [PDF]
, 2007 English interest in the great Cistercian abbey of Pontigny was stimulated by the exiles there of two archbishops of Canterbury, Thomas Becket and Stephen Langton.1 As archbishops of Canterbury, Langton and Edmund of Abingdon made gifts to Pontigny abbey ...
Cockburn J. Hutchison +2 more
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Collaborations Between Scott and Skidmore
British Art Studies, 2017 This essay examines the collaboration between architect and designer George Gilbert Scott and metalworker Francis Skidmore. It compares their metalwork screens at the cathedrals of Hereford, Lichfield, and Salisbury—projects which sometimes overlapped ...
Alicia Robinson
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Issue 5 The Medieval Choir Screen in Sacred Space: The Dynamic Interiors of Vezzolano and Breisach
British Art Studies, 2017 In their later medieval heyday, choir screens were pivotal centerpieces and focalisers of their sacred environments. Embellished with figural imagery; outfitted with platforms, pulpits, and altars; and rendered visually porous by the presence of large ...
Jacqueline E. Jung
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Continuity and change in diocese and province: the role of a Tudor bishop [PDF]
, 1996 Thomas Cranmer's register is important in shedding valuable shafts of light on the nature of the episcopal office in Tudor England. Despite the government's break with Rome in the 1530s, much of the archbishop's routine administration continued unaltered.
Ayris, P
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Cathedral engagement with young people [PDF]
, 2015 The Archbishops’ Commission on Cathedrals (1994) identified education as among the crucial purposes of cathedrals. This chapter analyzes the websites of fifteen cathedrals within the most urban dioceses of the Church of England and the Church in Wales in
A Thatcher +19 more
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