The Hereford Mappa Mundi, about 1300, Hereford Cathedral, England.

Category: People educated at Hereford Cathedral School

Hereford Cathedral, from Church Street

The present Hereford Cathedral dates from the 12th century.

Hereford Cathedral School is also one of the oldest schools in England.

HCS, together with HCJS ( see below ) educates the choristers for Hereford Cathedral Choir.

* Hereford Cathedral Junior School-A co-educational independent school.

Hereford Cathedral Junior School is, with Hereford Cathedral School, part of the ancient Hereford Cathedral Foundation dating back to 676.

Hereford Cathedral dates from 1079 and contains the Mappa Mundi, a medieval map of the world dating from the 13th century which was restored in the late 20th century.

* Hereford Cathedral

He died in about 1223 in his 77th year, probably in Hereford and he is according to some accounts buried at St David's Cathedral.

Her death was remembered at Hereford Cathedral on 6 July, the same day as that of the king.

: George Robertson Sinclair, the energetic organist of Hereford Cathedral.

One of the largest items is the Hereford Screen, weighing nearly 8 tonnes, 10. 5 metres high and 11 metres wide, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1862 for the chancel in Hereford Cathedral, from which it was removed in 1967.

* Aylestone Business and Enterprise College-A co-educational comprehensive school for pupils aged between 11 and 16, created in 1976 by merging two former grammar schools, the Hereford High School for Boys and the Hereford High School for Girls.

Hereford Sixth Form College is a co-educational state funded sixth form college in Hereford, England.

* Hereford College of Arts-a publicly funded art school located on Folly Lane, with a Higher Education centre on Whitecross Road, and a Media Centre on Bath Street.

* The Hereford Academy-A high school for pupils aged between 11 and 16.

The school primarily serves the Catholic Communities of Herefordshire and is situated in a very attractive rural location close to the River Lugg, a few miles to the east of the City of Hereford in the village of Lugwardine.

A charitable music school is also based in Hereford.

He went to Hereford High School for Boys ( grammar school, since 1976 the comprehensive Aylestone School ), then Hereford Sixth Form College.

Trevor Kavanagh was educated at Reigate Grammar School before leaving school at 17 to work for newspapers in Surrey and later Hereford.

The current school was established in 1865 with land donated by Lord Powis and monies from the then Rector, the Hereford Diocesan Board of Education as well as many smaller gifts.

* A history of the choristers and choir school of Hereford Cathedral

After his father's death in 1814, Lane was sent to grammar school at Bath and then Hereford, where he showed a talent for mathematics.

Hereford College of Arts ( formerly Herefordshire College of Art and Design ) is an art school based in the English West Midlands, on the cusp of the Anglo-Welsh border.

He was educated at Aylestone School, Hereford, Herefordshire, England-a comprehensive school.

The rebuilding of the school ( 1864 – 1878 ) was mostly undertaken by William Snooke who built the chapel, two schoolrooms and a classroom in 1864-5, followed in the 1870s by the library, Headmaster's House and the buildings which now form Monmouth House and Hereford House.

Within these divisions, pupils are members of different houses as follows: Wye and Dean Houses, the lower school day houses, which are incorporated under one roof in a building at the south of the campus ; St James House has been recently moved to Chapel house, the lower school boarding house, located off-site nearby in St James Square ; Severn House, the newest of the middle school day houses, located on the ground floor of the middle school house complex at the north of the campus ; Town House ; Monmouth House, one of the original day houses, located below Hereford House in a building which also houses the Classics and Religious Studies departments and is connected to Severn and Town Houses ; Hereford House, another of the original day houses ; Weirhead House, a boarding house, located at the south of the campus ; New House, a boarding house, located next to the administrative buildings in the centre of the campus ; School House, a boarding house, located next to the middle school house complex at the north-east of the complex ; Chapel House, Monmouth, a Grade II * listed building, located offsite on the Hereford Road to the north of the town and Tudor, Glendower and Buchanan Houses, which comprise the sixth form centre and V1. 2 boarding.

The third creation was for Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford in 1239, whose father Henry had married Maud, sister of the sixth earl.

The college was founded in 1973 as the main provider of sixth form education in Hereford and the surrounding area and also attracts students from Abergavenny to Worcester and Brecon.

Major re-development in Hereford town centre has resulted in the construction of a new canal bed which will eventually link to a new basin, to form the centrepiece of the Edgar Street Grid development.

Athelstan, often seen as the first king of a united England, summoned the British kings to a meeting at Hereford in 926, and according to William of Malmesbury laid down the boundary between Wales and England, particularly the disputed southern stretch where he specified that the River Wye should form the boundary.

These acquisitions were also exploited in the form of a passenger service from Hereford to Swansea which, in conjunction with running powers over the Great Western between Worcester and Hereford, permitted the provision of through carriages from Birmingham to Swansea in competition with the Great Western.

In 2006 – 07 Hereford achieved victories over five of the top eight finishing clubs, but a poor run of form in the last part of the season dropped the club into 16th position.

South Herefordshire was combined with the areas of City of Hereford, most of the District of Leominster, and part of the District of Malvern Hills to form a new unitary County of Herefordshire District: usually referred to simply as Herefordshire.

An example of such a city was Hereford, whose city council was merged in 1998 to form a unitary Herefordshire.

In 1974 the county was merged with Herefordshire to form a large single administrative county of Hereford and Worcester which in 1998 was reverted to the original historical counties.

On 1 July 1860 the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway absorbed both the Worcester & Hereford Railway and the Newport, Abergavenny & Hereford Railway to form the West Midland Railway.

In its final form, the Hereford constituency contained the city of Hereford and most of South Herefordshire, including Ross-on-Wye but excluding Ledbury and Much Marcle both of which were in the Leominster constituency.

The Hereford Mappa Mundi is a mappa mundi, of a form deriving from the T and O pattern, The spherical shape of the Earth was already known to the ancient Greeks and Romans and the idea was never entirely forgotten even in the Middle Ages, and thus the circular representation may well be considered a conventional attempt at a projection: in spite of the acceptance of a spherical Earth, only the known parts of the Northern Hemisphere were believed to be inhabitable by human beings ( see antipodes ), so that the circular representation remained adequate.

On 31 March 1974 most of Worcestershire merged with Herefordshire to form the new county of Hereford and Worcester ( see Lord Lieutenant of Hereford and Worcester ).

On 31 March 1974 Worcestershire merged with Herefordshire to form the new administrative county of Hereford and Worcester, which also became a new lieutenancy area ( see Lord Lieutenant of Hereford and Worcester ).