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Extract from the Lichfield Travel Guides:
Some fourteen miles to the north of Birmingham, the pocket-sized town of
LICHFIELD
is a slow-moving but amiable place that demands a visit for one reason - its magnificent sandstone
Cathedral
(daily 8am-6.30pm; 3 donation requested). Begun in 1085, but substantially rebuilt in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the cathedral is unique in possessing three spires - an appropriate distinction for a bishopric that once extended over virtually all of the Midlands. The cathedral's
west front
is adorned by over one hundred statues of biblical figures, English kings and the supposed ancestors of Chr...
read the whole Lichfield Travel Guides...
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