There is a chained library of 1500 books and many works of more than local interest.

It is standard for chained libraries to have the chain fitted to the corner or cover of a book.

A new site to house it and the famous chained library will be built on the site when the dig is finished.

The old Treasury which housed the wealth of the minster has an important chained library.

Today the library is one of the few remaining examples of a chained library located within a school.

David Williams has written a mystery, Murder in Advent, that features a chained library.

By 1422 a new, chained library had been built over the east walk of the Cloister, adjoining the Chapter House.

It is sometimes put on display alongside the Mappa Mundi in the cathedral's chained library.

It is now housed in Hereford Cathedral in the largest surviving "chained library".

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The library was founded in 1686 and is the second largest chained library in the country and also one of the first public libraries.

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It's been revealed that multi-millionaire Paul Getty is donating a million pounds for a building to house the map and the famous chained library.

Grantham's St Wulfram's church has a fine example of a Chained library still extant within the church.

The main concern was to prevent the books contained within the chained library from being damaged, either by fire or water from the fire brigade's hoses.

M Map The same wing contains the world's largest surviving chained library , hooked to its shelves by a cascade of long thin shackles.

It replaces a two-storey south porch, in whose upper room Gregory Geering and the then vicar established an antiquarian chained library.

The bookshelves date from 1766 and indications from the bindings of the books show the library was not chained, although some have been in chained libraries.

The death of John Parkhurst, the Bishop of Norwich, in 1575 resulted in the founding of the school's chained library.

There is also an example of a chained library in the Royal Grammar School, Guildford as well as at Hereford Cathedral.

It has an interesting crypt chapel and hidden up a steep stairwell is a rare 16th-century chained library where a young Isaac Newton once pored over his studies.

The Minster has existed for over 1300 years and is recognised for its unusual chained library (one of only four surviving chained libraries in the world).

A near-perfect 1217 copy is held by Hereford Cathedral and is occasionally displayed alongside the Mappa Mundi in the cathedral's chained library.

The 'old school' building which was constructed over the turn of the Tudor and Elizabethan periods and houses a chained library, lies towards the top of High Street.

The church has a small chained library of 17th century theological works and some notable monumental brass particularly the altar tomb of John Harewell and his wife Anna (1505).