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Hereford Cathedral Chained Library

28
Jun 2012
AUTHOR Mark Newton
CATEGORY

art & photography

COMMENTS 6 Comments
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  • Hélène BLANCHARD

    Halfway between wild and dangerous things which need to be controlled and “my precious, mine”.

  • http://markcnewton.com Mark Newton

    Yes! I much prefer to think of them as wild and dangerous books. Books with ATTITUDE. The chains are there to protect us, not the books.

  • Minusakidney

    I was once accidentally locked in to Hereford Cathedral’s Mappa Mundi exhibit - I was about eleven and didn’t notice I’d been locked in until about twenty minutes later when an attendant hurried in apologising.

  • http://markcnewton.com Mark Newton

    That actually sounds like quite a good place to be locked in. Was that 11pm?

  • Minusakidney

    No, I was eleven years old; my dad had half the cathedral staff running round looking for me.  Even at the time I thought it was quite cool that I’d been locked in (my dad didn’t).  The maps were really amazing.

  • Rachel

    Very Discworld! In which case, the chains are DEFINITELY there for our protection.