HEREFORD FROM THE WYE. HEREFORD CATHEDRAL, FROM THE SOUTH-EAST. A GARGOYLE IN THE CLOISTERS. DRAWN BY A. HUGH FISHER. THE AUDLEY CHAPEL. THE WEST FRONT (FROM AN OLD PRINT). THE NAVE AFTER THE FALL OF THE WEST END. THE CATHEDRAL FROM THE NORTH AT THE END OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. BISHOP BOOTH’S PORCH AND NORTH TRANSEPT. GENERAL VIEW, FROM THE WEST. EXTERIOR OF THE LADY CHAPEL. DRAWN BY A. HUGH FISHER. THE CLOISTERS, WITH THE LADIES’ ARBOUR. THE NORTH PORCH. THE NAVE. THE CHOIR SCREEN. SECTION THROUGH TOWER AND TRANSEPTS. NORTH ARCH OF CENTRAL TOWER, SHOWING MASONRY ERECTED ABOUT 1320. THE NORTH TRANSEPT. THE CANTILUPE SHRINE. EAST WALL OF THE SOUTH TRANSEPT. THE LADY CHAPEL. SECTION THROUGH LADY CHAPEL AND CRYPT. ARCH DISCOVERED AT ENTRANCE OF LADY CHAPEL. SEAL OF JOHANNA DE BOHUN. THE CRYPT. VIEW BEHIND THE ALTAR, LOOKING NORTH. AFTER A DRAWING BY W. H. BARTLETT, 1830. COMPARTMENT OF CHOIR, EXTERIOR, NORTH SIDE. COMPARTMENT OF CHOIR, INTERIOR, NORTH SIDE. EAST END OF THE CHOIR IN 1841. EARLY ENGLISH WINDOW MOULDING. THE REREDOS. ANCIENT RELIQUARY IN THE CATHEDRAL. MONUMENTAL CROCKET. EARLY ENGLISH BASEMENT MOULDING. A GARGOYLE IN THE CLOISTERS. DRAWN BY A. HUGH FISHER. TOMB OF BISHOP THOS. CHARLETON. A GARGOYLE IN THE CLOISTERS. DRAWN BY A. HUGH FISHER. A GARGOYLE IN THE CLOISTERS. DRAWN BY A. HUGH FISHER. BYE STREET GATE. FROM AN OLD PRINT. PLAN OF HEREFORD CATHEDRAL. [Illustration: HEREFORD CATHEDRAL, FROM THE SOUTH-EAST.] HEREFORD CATHEDRAL, FROM THE SOUTH-EAST. _Photochrom Co., Ld., Photo._ HEREFORD CATHEDRAL CHAPTER I. - THE HISTORY OF THE BUILDING. The early history of Hereford, like that of the majority of cathedral churches, is veiled in the obscurity of doubtful speculation and shadowy tradition. Although the see had existed from the sixth century, it is not till much later that we have any information concerning the cathedral itself.