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  • [250] My account of the library at Lichfield is derived from the _History and Antiquities of the Church and City of Lichfield_, by Rev.Th. Harwood,

    The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

  • When Guardian Money contacted the district council in Lichfield, home to Springhill Cemetery, the town clerk told us the area "currently has no shortage of burial space", and that the cost of plots, for Lichfield residents, was only around £350.

    Are cemeteries the new safe investment? Patrick Collinson 2010

  • At this same Lichfield, which is only two miles from Sutton, and through which she said the road lay which I was to travel tomorrow, she still lived with this same excellent husband, where they were noted for their industry, where everybody respected them, and where, though in the lowest sphere, they are passing through life neither uselessly nor unhappily.

    Travels in England in 1782 2004

  • Bishop de Clinton and his deacon, Serlo, were on their way back to Coventry, where one of Roger's predecessors in office had transferred the chief seat of his diocese, though it was still more often referred to as Lichfield than as Coventry, and both churches considered themselves as having cathedral status.

    The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989

  • Bishop de Clinton and his deacon, Serlo, were on their way back to Coventry, where one of Roger's predecessors in office had transferred the chief seat of his diocese, though it was still more often referred to as Lichfield than as Coventry, and both churches considered themselves as having cathedral status.

    The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989

  • After I reached the landing stage, a place called Lichfield, I had to wait an hour before proceeding in the direction which I had found out it would be necessary to follow in order to find Etienne and his mother.

    Crowded Out! and Other Sketches 1897

  • These are all examples of Early English work, but in the nave of Lichfield, which is Decorated, the triforium is still far more prominent than the clerestory.

    The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See 1896

  • While Dr. Beddoes's was something less than outgoing, and by some accounts would barely take part in conversations, the doctor was nonetheless at the center of an intellectual interchange known as the Lichfield

    Introduction 1821

  • At this same Lichfield, which is only two miles from Sutton, and through which she said the road lay which I was to travel to-morrow, she still lived with this same excellent husband, where they were noted for their industry, where everybody respected them, and where, though in the lowest sphere, they are passing through life neither uselessly nor unhappily.

    Travels in England in 1782 Karl Philipp Moritz 1775

  • They rank rather with our smaller episcopal churches, such as Lichfield, Wells, and Hereford.

    Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857

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