Hereford Cathedral has a life-size Easter Garden to help those who visit the cathedral try to imagine what it was like that first Easter Day.

The life-size tomb is placed in the south transept of the cathedral and represents a rock-hewn cave with a large stone at its entrance. Inside the tomb itself you can see the grave-clothes, as described in the gospels. Alongside the tomb are three crosses, and in front of the tomb, plants and shrubbery, representing the garden. The crosses are designed by Keith Milow and are on loan to the cathedral from the Jerwood Foundation.

The tomb is made by Canon Sandy Elliott, and a band of enthusiastic volunteers from the cathedral congregation.

Commenting on the garden, the dean of Hereford, The Very Revd. Michael Tavinor says: 'For over twenty years, our Easter garden was created by Richard and Janet Taylor - a beautiful miniature garden. The Taylors have now handed on this task and I thought it would be good to have a new interpretation - hence the life-size version. We hope that people who visit the cathedral will be able to see, in their mind's eye, what the tomb may have been like on that first Easter day and will catch something of the mystery and excitement of it all'.

The Easter tomb and garden will be in the cathedral until Tuesday 3 May.