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Conserving and Restoring the Hereford Screen [PDF]
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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The Hereford Screen: A Prehistory [PDF]
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 [PDF]
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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Sound and Vision in the Hereford Screen [PDF]
Justin Underhill
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“A triumph of art” or “blatant vulgarity”: The Reception of Scott and Skidmore’s Screens [PDF]
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 [PDF]
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 cattle genome features [PDF]
Boss taurus is not only an important agricultural species, which during the last 8–10 thousand years since domestication served to humanity as a reliable source of milk, meat, skin, and cattle, is a successful object for the study of obesity ...
S. O. Kostenko
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Issue 5 The Medieval Choir Screen in Sacred Space: The Dynamic Interiors of Vezzolano and Breisach
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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Collaborations Between Scott and Skidmore
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
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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