College of Vicars Choral

The College of Vicars Choral is a Grade I listed building in Hereford, England,[1] which was originally built to house the vicars choral, or lay clerks, of the adjacent Hereford Cathedral.

The vicars choral at Hereford were incorporated as a college in 1395, at which time there were twenty-seven members.

Their number was reduced to twelve, with an additional five lay members, in 1637, and the college was dissolved in 1937.

Its earliest parts date from c. 1473, when Bishop Stanberry had the college moved from Castle Street a short distance to the east.

The college is connected to the cathedral by a corridor, probably of late fifteenth-century date, which runs between the north-west corner of the former and the south-west transept of the latter.