English and Scottish Family Haunts

Lichfield Cathedral 

 

'Lichfield' actually means 'field or place of the dead'. Legend has it that a thousand Christians were martyred in Lichfield around AD 300, during the reign of the Roman Emperor Diolectian.” Lichfield Cathedral can trace its history back to 669, when the Bishop of Mercia moved his See from Repton to Lichfield, the centre of the Kingdom of Mercia. In 1085 the original Saxon Church was replaced by a Norman Cathedral, and this in turn was replaced by a Gothic Cathedral begun in 1195. The Cathedral suffered much devastation during the Civil War and was restored in the 1600s.