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Easter Hoard Cross and Bishop Wilfrid Hoard Gold Cross: context, use and date	Cross for a bishop of Mercia  Mystery object is a handbell   Hoard Cross with writing It has to be the 'Lichfield Hoard'
Wulfhere and Wilfrid, and later Bede, name Lichfield Lichfield recasts its name	Current explanation for the name of Lichfield. Reasons why Lichfield (Licitfelda) had approval
Dating the cathedral	7th-century Lichfield and the residents.
Making sense of Chad's grave, St Peter's cathedral, St Mary's church and a shrine tower Surely Chad's grave should be marked!	1. Two churches in 672 and a shrine 2. Early Lichfield set out like Jerusalem 3. Early churches and Anglo-saxon culture 4. Three conjectures on the early church
Chad Biography fact and fiction   Chad’s relics	Lichfield Angel. Offa's shrine chest  Langton's shrine
Was this an early settlement in Lichfield 7th-century medicine	12th-century Lichfield Tomtun early settlement
First Civil War siege of the Close March 1643 Second siege 7-21 April 1643	Third siege March 8-July 16 1646  Civil War damage and restoration
Lichfield’s founding myth- take it seriously!  Chad fantasy, folklore and maybe	Anchorite-priest in the cathedral? Beasts in the Lady Chapel
Choristers Chantries Christmas - Christ's mass Priest's dress and Chad's appearance	Reformation Pre-Reformation Mass Penitence pre-Reformation Baptism pre-Reformation Death and burial  pre-Reformation
Boundaries and walls	East-west alignment
Washing feet Illumination	Pilgrimage defines the cathedral
St Chad’s Gospels	John Wycliffe's New Testament
Lady Chapel and Sainte-Chapelle West front of the cathedral Crossing tower	Herkenrode painted glass Medieval glass Three icons Skidmore's choir screen
King Richard II of Bordeaux and Lichfield	King Penda of Mercia deserves a statue
There is no historical evidence for a Norman second cathedral Why the second cathedral must be Anglo-Saxon (Englisc). Comparison shows an Anglo-Saxon second cathedral	It is short perch; historians please note. The incomparable apse of the second cathedral Size matters for the third cathedral
Dissidents in the market square The inquisition of Robert Glover - a Lollard Martyr	Plague on Lichfield Mary Wortley Montagu
Bishops, Conquest to Reformation Bishops, Reformation to Commonwealth Bishops Commonwealth to Recovery	Early Benefactors
Nave Part 1. Nave Part 2 arcades Gothic Cathedral Building the cathedral	Chapterhouse       Souith Transept      North Transept       Early English Choir        Rooms south of the Choir       Two early chapels
Cathedral Piped Organs	Singing windows? Old Library
Sleeping children. Francis Chantrey	Two frescoes in the south aisle Lady Chapel reredos
Wilfrid founder of church of Mercia	1.    Bishop Walter Langton – benefactor 2.    Bishop John Hacket 3. Bishop Meuland - an enigma 4. Archbishop of Lichfield (Hygeberht)
James Wyatt's restoration, 1787-92 Victorian recovery	Franciscan Friary Bishop Langton's palace
When the Vikings came
South Staffordshire Regiments