HEREFORD Cathedral is celebrating the 800th anniversary of its 1217 Magna Carta with a special exhibition.
The 1217 charter brought to an end a civil war in England which the more famous 1215 Charter of Liberties had failed to conclude.
Hereford Cathedral possesses one of only four surviving official copies of the 1217 Magna Carta. It is too fragile to be on permanent display, although it did go on a 37,000-mile world tour in 2015, when it was seen by 25,000 people.
In association with the exhibition there is a series of six evening lectures with outside speakers and on Saturday, November 11 a conference called 'Hereford and the Magna Carta, 1217-2017' will be held at the cathedral.
The set of calligraphic ‘Flags of Freedom’ banners commissioned in 2015 from local artist Chris White to mark the 800th anniversary of the 1215 charter have been rehung in the cathedral nave. They incorporate important clauses from the charter.
‘Law, Life and Landscape’ is shown within the Mappa Mundi and Chained Library exhibition space, from until Saturday, December 30.
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