Lichfield No. 4 / Chad-Stowe / Lecefelle / Lichfield St Chad / Stow St. Chad / Stowe

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. The entry for this friary in the Victoria County History [Stafford, vol. 3, 1970) notes: "From the autumn of 1237 come the first signs that the Grey Friars were beginning the 'construction of their dwellings and chapel' at Lichfield [...] The friary stood in the south-west part of the city on the west side of Bird Street and St. John Street. The site is crossed by Friary Road, built in the 1920s, [...] but the portion formerly occupied by the church and some of the conventual buildings is preserved as an open space. [...] The church was large: the nave was of five bays and measured 110 × 60 feet, while the chancel was 95 × 28 feet. The tower was probably at the crossing. The cloister, 80 feet square, lay on the south side of the church, and Friary Road follows the line of its south wall. The Bishop's Lodging on the southern part of the site was enlarged by Gregory Stonyng, in 1545 and is now incorporated in the Friary School."