. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . from the cold; andto removing the communiontable to the extreme cast ofthe building, so as to con-vert the united choir andLady Chapel into a longaisleless or apteral arches were reopenedin the year 185G, and fouryears later the cathedral wasplaced under the charge ofthe late Sii G. G. Scott,with the result, to quote thewords of the accomplished author of the Handbook to the Englisli Cathedrals, that tlie cathedi-alhas been enriched with a series of works in wood, metal, and encaustic tile
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . from the cold; andto removing the communiontable to the extreme cast ofthe building, so as to con-vert the united choir andLady Chapel into a longaisleless or apteral arches were reopenedin the year 185G, and fouryears later the cathedral wasplaced under the charge ofthe late Sii G. G. Scott,with the result, to quote thewords of the accomplished author of the Handbook to the Englisli Cathedrals, that tlie cathedi-alhas been enriched with a series of works in wood, metal, and encaustic tiles,unexceeded in l)cautv or in interest by anv which have been produced inEngland during the present century. The great events in the history of Lichfield Cathedral (for generally theannals of the town have been as uneventful as those of a small midland townmtliout a nver and without manufactures usually are) occurred during the CivilWar, as has already been intimated. The town itself was an open one, l)ut thecathedral had been rather strongly fortified by Stephen Langton, its bishop, and. THE WEST EUOXT. 1)4 CATHEDRAL CHURCHES. [Lichfield. a statesman of mark in tlie reigns of the first two Edwards. AVlien thestrife between king and Parliament resulted in an appeal to arms, it happenedthat the chief families in the neighljom-ing- districts were strongly Royalist, andso the close of Lichfield by tlieir means was occupied by a garrison, andheld for tlie king. This, in the early part of 10-43, was attacked by a Parliamentaryarmy under the command of Robert, Lord Brooke. lie 2)lanted one of his batteriesin Dam Street, whicli runs along a kind of causeway at the eastern end of tlicMinster Po(j1, a sheet of water completely protecting the south side of the Lord Jirooke was standing in this battery, a shot fired from the battlements ofthe central tower by a Mr. D}^ott, one of tlie gentry of the neighbourhood, struckhim in the forehead and he fell dead. His fall, however, did
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