Herefordshire - Pevsner Architectural Guides Author:Nikolaus Pevsner "Not a mile visually unrewarding or painful" Pevsner wrote of this attractive rolling county on the borders of Wales, studded with red sandstone churches and appealing villages of timber-framed and brick houses. There is a rich medieval legacy, from tiny county churches with the distinctive wiry Norman sculpture of the 'Herefordshire school', to... more » the inventive Gothic of Abbey Dore and Hereford Cathedral. Later highlights include endearing oddities such as the icing-sugar Gothic of the eighteenth century church at Shobdon, and Robert Smirke's grandiose neo-Norman Eastnor Castle.« less