Hereford School of Art

The School of Art was founded in 1851 shortly after The Great Exhibition which prompted the British Government to set up The Department of Practical Art. The School of Art was based on Castle Green before moving to Folly Lane in the late 1960's. By the 1990's, when it was known as Herefordshire College of Art and Design, the establishment was the only further education corporation in the West Midlands to specialise exclusively in art, craft, design and the performing arts. Hereford College of Arts remains on Folly Lane. The Castle Green site, now called The Pavilion, is to be restored as part of the regeneration of the River Wye area.

Following the postwar shakeup of technical and vocational education, in 1944 the Art and Science school at Hereford became known as the Hereford School of Art before becoming the Herefordshire College of Art & Design. The name changed to incorporate the inclusion of Music and Performing Arts.