Its beauties are entirely lost at its present height from the ground. The circular medallions are 3 feet in diameter, the subjects being:— 1. The Ascension; 2. The Resurrection; 3. The Crucifixion. The upper semi-circles represent Christ healing lepers and demoniacs; the lower, His being taken down from the Cross, and Mary with the box of precious ointment. CHAPTER IV. - HISTORY OF THE SEE. The true origin of the See of Hereford is lost in remote antiquity. However, it seems probable from the researches of many antiquarians that when Putta came to preside here in the seventh century the see was re-established. The Rev. Francis Havergal writes on this matter in the beginning of his _Fasti Herefordenses_. "The Welsh claim a high antiquity for Hereford as the recognised centre of Christianity in this district. Archbishop Usher asserts that it was the seat of an Episcopal See in the sixth century, when one of its bishops attended a synod convened by the Archbishop of Caerleon (A.D. 544). In the _Lives of the British Saints_ (Rev. W. J. Reeves, 1853), we learn that Geraint ab Erbin, cousin of King Arthur, who died A.D. 542, is said to have founded a church at Caerffawydd, the ancient British name for Hereford. In Wilkin’s _Concilia_, I. 24, it is recorded that beyond all doubt a Bishop of Hereford was present at the conference with St. Augustine, A.D. 601. Full particulars are given of the supposed time and place of this conference. It is also stated—’_In secunda affuisse perhibentur septem hi Britannici episcopi Herefordensis, Tavensis alias Llantavensis, Paternensis, Banchoriensis, Chirensis alias Elinensis, Uniacensis alias Wiccensis, Morganensis._’ It is styled ’_Synodus Wigornensis_,’ or according to Spelman, ’_Pambritannicam_.’ Nothing whatever is known of the names or of the number of British bishops who presided over the earliest church at Hereford." The boundaries of this diocese in the tenth century are defined in Anglo-Saxon in an ancient volume known as the _Mundy Gospels_, now in the library of Pembroke College, Cambridge.