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unusual facts about The Franciscan Friary, Lichfield



Anna Seward

In her work, Seward could be alternately arch and teasing, as in her poem entitled Portrait of Miss Levett, on the subject of a Lichfield beauty later married to Rev. Richard Levett.

Anthony Christian

In his earlier days Anthony earned his living as a portrait artist, painting among others Lord Mountbatten of Burma, Baroness Olympia de Rothschild, Baroness Fiona Thyssen-Bornemisza, Count Guido di Carpegna, Lord Lichfield, Blake Edwards, Julie Christie and Terence Stamp.

Apple Day

Whittington, near Lichfield in Staffordshire, the home of the John Downie crab apple, holds an annual apple day fair on the third Saturday in October, with tastings, juicing, games and apple produce.

Appleby Magna

Another famous resident of the Moat House was Joyce de Appleby, who became a Protestant martyr after she was burnt at the stake by Bloody Mary (Queen Mary I of England) in Lichfield Market Place, for not converting to Catholicism.

Armitage Park

The estate was purchased by Nathaniel Lister, (poet and author, Member of Parliament for Clitheroe and uncle of Baron Ribblesdale) following his marriage to Martha Fletcher a Lichfield heiress and he built the house in the Gothic Revival style about 1760.

Ælfheah

Elphege of Lichfield (died 1012-1014), Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Lichfield

Biddulph baronets

It was created on 2 November 1664 for Theophilus Biddulph, of Westcombe Park, Greenwich, Kent, Member of Parliament for the City of London and Lichfield.

Birchills Junction

From Brownhills it would drop through 30 locks on its route past Lichfield to reach Huddlesford Junction.

Bishop of Lindsey

The diocese of Lindsey (Lindine) was established when the large Diocese of Mercia was divided in the late 7th century into the bishoprics of Lichfield and Leicester (for Mercia itself), Worcester (for the Hwicce), Hereford (for the Magonsæte), and Lindsey (for the Lindisfaras).

Book of Cerne

Some researchers believe that these texts refer to Bishop Ædiluald/Æthelwold (721-740 CE) of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, while others have suggested that the name refers to Bishop Ædeluald (818-830 CE) of Lichfield in Mercia.

Bradley Garmston

He was educated at The Cathedral school Lichfield and King Edward's School, Birmingham.

Brintons

A third campaign was launched in 1996 and in 2000, British designer Antony Price created evening gowns constructed from carpet and photographed by Patrick Lichfield (Lord Lichfield) for these advertisements.

British Rail Class 323

It was intended for the units to be introduced on the newly electrified Cross-City Line from Redditch to Lichfield (via Birmingham New Street).

Catshill Junction

However, the company obtained a second Act in 1794, before the original canal was completed, which authorised an extension eastwards from Birchills, passing through Pelsall to reach more collieries at Brownhills, close to Catshill Junction, and on to the site of Ogley Junction, from where it would descend through thirty locks to reach Huddlesford Junction, to the east of Lichfield.

Cuthred of Kent

During Cuðred's reign, the Archbishopric of Lichfield was formally abolished at the Council of Clovesho on October 12, 803, and the Archbishopric of Canterbury thus regained the status of which Offa of Mercia had sought to deprive it.

Duddeston railway station

Duddeston railway station is situated in the Duddeston area of Birmingham, England on the Redditch-Birmingham New Street-Lichfield Cross-City Line and the Walsall line.

Dudley Southern By-Pass

It runs from Castle Gate island to Stourbridge Road in the Holly Hall area of the town, and forms part of the A461 road between Stourbridge and Lichfield.

Ellis Farneworth

On one occasion John Addenbrooke, dean of Lichfield, strongly recommended him to translate John Spelman's Life of Alfred the Great from the Latin into English, and Farneworth was about to begin when Samuel Pegge luckily heard of it, and sent him word that the Life of Alfred was originally written in English and thence translated into Latin.

Fairfax Moresby

Colonel of the 2nd Staffordshire Militia and Colonel Commandant of the Lichfield Volunteer Yeomanry, who had been posted to India where he married Mary Rotton (1767–1830) of Duffield, Derbyshire in October 1784.

George Kilpatrick

After tutoring at Queen's College, Edgbaston, and serving as Acting Warden of the College of the Ascension, Selly Oak, Kilpatrick became rector of Wishaw, Warwickshire, and a lecturer at Lichfield Theological College in 1942.

Griffin Higgs

with the support of Archibishop William Laud, he was appointated precentor of St David's on 21 May 1631 (Le Neve, Fasti, ed. Hardy, i. 316), instituted vicar of Cliffe, Kent, about 1636 (Hasted, Kent, iv. 32), and in 1638 made dean of Lichfield (Le Neve, i. 563), ‘the cathedral of which,’ says Wood, ‘he adorned to his great charge.’ He was also chaplain in ordinary to the king.

Henry Chichele

On 7 May 1404, Pope Boniface IX provided him to a prebend at Lincoln, notwithstanding he already held prebends at Salisbury, Lichfield, St Martins-le-Grand and Abergwyly, and the living of Brington.

John Hackett

John Hacket (1592–1670), English churchman, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry 1661–1670

Lichfield Cricket Club

The club, which has a flourishing junior section, plays at its home ground Collins Hill in Lichfield.

Lichfield Gospels

The script forms strong links between the Lichfield manuscript and Northumbrian, Iona, and Irish manuscripts.

Lichfield Heritage Centre

The museum is located on the south side of the market square on the second floor of St Mary's Church in the centre of Lichfield, Staffordshire in the United Kingdom.

There are also two audio-visual presentations which feature stories into Lichfield's ancient past, the building of the Cathedral and the sieges during the Civil War.

Manley Hall

Manley Hall, Staffordshire, a partly demolished country house near Lichfield

Michael Biddulph

Sir Michael Biddulph, 2nd Baronet (c. 1652–1718), English politician, Member of Parliament for Lichfield five times (1679–1710)

Pelsall

A notable landmark in Pelsall is The Fingerpost, at the junction of B4154 Norton Road and A4124 Lichfield Road, which is an unusual and possibly unique design and was substantially restored in the 1980s by Bert Kellitt for the local Civic Society.

Plenarium

Under this heading is classed the Book of Gospels at Lichfield Cathedral and the Book of Gospels given by Athelstan to Christ Church in Canterbury, now in the library of Lambeth Palace (Rock, "Church of our Fathers", I, 122).

Polish Forces War Memorial:National Memorial Arboretum

The National Memorial Arboretum near Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, comprises 150 acres of woodland and memorials dedicated to the fallen servicemen and women from World War I, World War and other conflicts of the 20th Century.

Robert Burdett

Sir Robert Burdett, 3rd Baronet (1640–1716), English MP for Warwickshire 1679–1681 and Lichfield 1689–1698

Robert Moncreiff, 3rd Baron Moncreiff

In 1870, Moncreiff was awarded BA and ordained a deacon at Lichfield when he became curate of Cubley, Derbyshire.

Samuel Rutter

He was appointed Prebendary of Longden, in the cathedral of Lichfield (being M.A.) 24 November 1660 and confirmed as Bishop of Sodor and Man on 5 October 1661.

Selly Oak railway station

Selly Oak railway station is a railway station in Selly Oak in Birmingham, England on the Cross-City Line between Redditch, Birmingham and Lichfield.

South Staffordshire Line

The South Staffordshire Line is a railway line that once connected Lichfield in Staffordshire, England with Dudley, formerly in Worcestershire.

Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society

The Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society Garden is a feature within the National Memorial Arboretum, the UK national site of remembrance at Alrewas, near Lichfield in Staffordshire.

Supplementum Plantarum

The work was translated by Erasmus Darwin's Lichfield Botanical Society as A System of Vegetables (1785).

Tarvin

In circa 1226 Alexander de Stavenby bishop of Lichfield founded the prebend of Tarvin which, at £26 13s 4d, was the highest endowment of Lichfield Cathedral.

Taupo railway proposals

The TTT Co line then went onwards south of Lichfield through what are now Tokoroa and Kinleith and crossed the Waikato River at Ongaroto.

The Franciscan Friary, Lichfield

In 1920 the 11 acre estate was sold to Sir Richard Ashmole Cooper (MP for Walsall), who gave it to the city for the purpose of developing the area and laying out a new road.

Theophilus John Levett

Theophilus John Levett was named for his ancestor Theophilus Levett, who had served as Lichfield Town Clerk in the early eighteenth century.

Thomas Anson, 2nd Earl of Lichfield

Lord Lichfield married Lady Harriett Georgiana Louisa, daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, in 1855.

Thomas Grey, Lord Grey of Groby

In a letter to his son Thomas, dated 5 March 1643, Henry Grey (Thomas' father) describes a battle to sweep the country, going through such towns as Lutterworth, Hinckley, Barwell, Lichfield, and Newark.

Thomas Minors

She died in 1667 and he married secondly Dorothy Jesson, who was the sister of William Jesson of Lichfield.

Wheels Entertainments

Based at Shenstone, in Lichfield, Staffordshire, it is the UK operations arm of Dubai-based Freij Entertainment International.

William the Clerk of Normandy

William's also wrote the Vie de Tobie for one William, prior of Kenilworth in Arden (1214–27), also in the diocese of Lichfield, and Les joies de notre Dame (or nostre Dame), which survives in only a single manuscript.


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