Lichfield No. 1 / Chad-Stowe / Lecefelle / Lichfield St Chad / Stow St. Chad / Stowe

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view of church exterior - west façade

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view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: portals, actually: the main central portal and two secondary entranceways besides

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tanya Dedyukhina, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2009 by Tanya Dedyukhina [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leachfield_Cathedral_-_panoramio_(3).jpg] [accessed 15 July 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

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Image Source: digital image of a 1890-1900 photomechanical print from the Views of the British Isles, in the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division [ppmsc.08545] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathedral,_South_Side,_Lichfield,_England-LCCN2002696906.tif] [accessed 15 July 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Concepcion Amat Orta, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2014 by Concepcion Amat Orta [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VIEW,_®'s_DigiGraf_Ð_┼_,_ENGLAND_MIDLANDS_LICHFIELD_CATHEDRAL_-_panoramio_(5).jpg] [accessed 15 July 2019]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Looking west in the choir of Lichfield Cathedral".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Iliff [Diliff], 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2014 by David Iliff [Diliff] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lichfield_Cathedral_Choir_1,_Staffordshire,_UK_-_Diliff.jpg] [accessed 15 July 2019]

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view of church interior - plan

Scene Description: the font, coded 'L', is shown at the west end of the north aisle in this ca. 1890 plan

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Ward and Lock's Illustrated Historical Handbook to Lichfield Cathedral [...] (London, 1890) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:18_of_'(Lichfield_Cathedral.)_Ward_and_Lock's_Illustrated_Historical_Handbook_to_Lichfield_Cathedral,_etc'_(11203580075).jpg] [accessed 15 July 2019]

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view of church interior - sculpture - angel

Scene Description: Stone Angel fragments discovered in the nave in 2003 were dated ca. 730

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Quine, 2010

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lichfield Cathedral font Situated in the North Transept, this fine alabaster font was given to the cathedral in the 19th century by the wife of Dean Howard."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trevor Rickard, 2009

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13126LIC
Church/Chapel: Cathedral Church of St. Chad and St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Chad [aka, Ceaadda, Cedd]
Church Location: 19A The Close, Lichfield WS13 7LD, UK -- Tel.: +44 1543 306100
Country Name: England
Location: Staffordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Lichfield is located at the A5192-A38-A51-A515 crossroads, 25 km N of Birmingham -- the cathedral is located off (E) Beacon St, at the SW end of Stowe Pool
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Historical Region: Hundred of Offlow
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 8th - 13th century, Medieval
Church Notes: bishopric established here 669; wooden cathedral built 700+ [Stone Angel fragments discovered in the nave in 2003 were dated ca. 730] ; replaced by Norman building started 1085; replaced by new Gothic bulding 1195-1330s; damaged in Civil War; restored 17th, 19thC
There is an entry for this Lichfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK1109/lichfield/] [accessed 15 July 2019]; it reports five priests, but not a church in it, though there must have been one there. Lewis' Dictionary of 1831 reports here one of the most remarkable fonts in the county. Noted in Tymms (1834). Noted in Poole (1842). Batty (1848) cites Poole (1842) on the desecration of the font by Puritans soldiers. The Builder (issue of 4 June 1870) reports the decision to limit repairs to the building to a small number of items; among the approved changes is: "That the font be removed to the west end of the church" [NB: a 1890 plan of the church interior shows the northwest corner of the nave marked with the font code]. The present font, located in the north transept, is modern, said to have been donated by Dean Howard's wife in his honour.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.6855, -1.8305
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 41′ 7.8″ N, 1° 49′ 49.8″ W
UTM: 30U 579053 5837928

REFERENCES

Batty, Robert Eaton, Some particulars connected with the history of baptismal fonts: being a paper read at the quarterly general meeting of the Architectural and Archaeological Society for the County of Buckingham, London: F. & J. Rivington, 1848
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831
Tymms, Samuel, Family Topographer, being a compendious account of the antient and present state of the counties of England: vol. IV, Oxford circuit, London: Nichols & Son, 1834