ISBN: 0 300 09609 7
'Not a mile visually unrewarding or painful' Pevsner wrote of this attractive rolling county on the
borders of Wales, studded with red sandstone churches and appealing villages of timber-framed
and brick houses. There is a rich medieval legacy, from tiny country churches with the distinctive
wiry Norman sculpture of the 'Herefordshire school', to the inventive Gothic of Abbey Dore and
Hereford Cathedral. Later highlights include endearing oddities such as the icing-sugar Gothic
of the eighteenth century church at Shobdon, and Robert Smirke's grandiose neo-Norman
Eastnor Castle.
