LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL FROM THE WEST.
THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF
LICHFIELD
A DESCRIPTION OF ITS FABRIC
AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE
EPISCOPAL SEE
BY
A. B. CLIFTON
WITH FORTY ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON, GEORGE BELL & SONS, 1900
First published February 1898
Second Edition revised February 1900
W. H. WHITE AND CO., LTD.
RIVERSIDE PRESS, EDINBURGH
GENERAL PREFACE
This series of monographs has been planned to supply visitorsto the great English Cathedrals with accurate and wellillustrated guide-books at a popular price. The aim of eachwriter has been to produce a work compiled with sufficientknowledge and scholarship to be of value to the student ofArchaeology and History, and yet not too technical in languagefor the use of an ordinary visitor or tourist.
To specify all the authorities which have been made use of ineach case would be difficult and tedious in this place. Butamongst the general sources of information which have been almostinvariably found useful are:—(1) the great countyhistories, the value of which, especially in questions ofgenealogy and local records, is generally recognised; (2) thenumerous papers by experts which appear from time to time in theTransactions of the Antiquarian and Archaeological Societies; (3)the important documents made accessible in the series issued bythe Master of the Rolls; (4) the well-known works of Britton andWillis on the English Cathedrals; and (5) the very excellentseries of Handbooks to the Cathedrals originated by the late MrJohn Murray; to which the reader may in most cases be referredfor fuller detail, especially in reference to the histories ofthe respective sees.
Gleeson White,
Edward E. F. Strange,
Editors of the Series.
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
Concerning any old Cathedral the mass of information is verygreat, and the authorities to be consulted many; and perhaps thealmost total absence—as in this case—of a documentaryhistory of the building of the fabric, makes for a larger bulk ofpamphlets and of communications to the antiquarian journals.Whether or no theory