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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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Conserving and Restoring the Hereford Screen

British Art Studies, 2017
In this film, the Victoria and Albert Museum's Head of Metalwork Conservation, Diana Heath, describes her involvement in the intricate conservation and restoration of the Hereford Screen over a number of years. From her first encounter with the screen in
Diana Heath
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Feeling what you hear: tactile feedback for navigation of audio graphs [PDF]

, 2006
Access to digitally stored numerical data is currently very limited for sight impaired people. Graphs and visualizations are often used to analyze relationships between numerical data, but the current methods of accessing them are highly visually ...
Brewster, S.A., Wall, S.
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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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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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MultiVis: improving access to visualisations for visually impaired people [PDF]

, 2006
This paper illustrates work undertaken on the MultiVis project to allow visually impaired users both to construct and browse mathematical graphs effectively. We start by discussing the need for such work, before discussing some of the problems of current
Brewster, S.A., McGookin, D.K.
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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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Theology and Threshold: Victorian Approaches to Reviving Choir and Rood Screens

British Art Studies, 2017
In 1851, A. W. N. Pugin published an influential treatise on rood screens, intending in his irrepressible polemical style to create further Gothic Revival momentum for inserting these iconographically complex and liturgically vital elements into Roman ...
Ayla Lepine
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