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Connected to Hereford Cathedral is a chained library. In the days when books were far rarer and more valuable than today, it behoved institutions and their librarians to chain the books to the shelves, allowing perusal but not ‘borrowing’. Thanks to the old Deans’ fixation on security, we have an interesting collection of ancient books at the heart of one of our finest cathedrals.

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