+----------------------------------------------+ | | | TALES OF ENGLISH MINSTERS SERIES | | | | EACH CONTAINING TWO FULL-PAGE | | ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR AND | | FOUR IN BLACK AND WHITE | | | | DURHAM | YORK | | | | | LINCOLN | ELY | | | | | ST. ALBANS | ST. PAUL’S | | | | CANTERBURY | | | | PUBLISHED BY | | | | A. AND C. BLACK · SOHO SQUARE · LONDON | | | +----------------------------------------------+ AGENTS AMERICA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 64 & 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK AUSTRALASIA OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 205 FLINDERS LANE, MELBOURNE CANADA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD. ST. MARTIN’S HOUSE, 70 BOND STREET, TORONTO INDIA MACMILLAN & COMPANY, LTD. MACMILLAN BUILDING, BOMBAY 309 BOW BAZAAR STREET, CALCUTTA LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR HEREFORD CATHEDRAL THE QUEEN HANDS THE DRUGGED CUP TO ETHELBERT THE NORTH TRANSEPT OF THE CATHEDRAL (_on the cover_) IN BLACK AND WHITE THE CATHEDRAL THE NAVE THE SCREEN TOMB OF BISHOP CANTELUPE TALES OF ENGLISH MINSTERS HEREFORD It is possible that anyone who visits Hereford Cathedral, after having visited the other two great Cathedral Churches of the West of England, Worcester and Gloucester, may feel a little disappointed, for it is smaller and plainer than either of them, and there are not so many stories that can be told about it. It has no Royal Tomb, nor any great outstanding Saint, yet in one respect it is the most interesting of the three.