Cattedrale di Lichfield

Lichfield / Regno Unito

La cattedrale di Lichfield è la chiesa principale della diocesi anglicana di Lichfield, nello Staffordshire . È l'unica cattedrale gotica inglese con tre guglie, chiamate anche the Ladies of the Vale, le signore della Vallata. La chiesa è lunga all'interno 113 metri e larga 21. La guglia centrale è alta 77 metri e le torri in facciata circa 58 metri. L'edificio è costruito con arenaria proveniente da una cava a sud della città. La cattedrale come tutta la città subì seri danni durante la guerra civile inglese, tra l'altro con la perdita delle vetrate, sostituite in seguito, in particolare quelle della Cappella della Madonna, alti esempi di vetreria fiamminga, provenienti dall'Abbazia di Herkenrode, in Belgio, portate in Inghilterra nel 1801, dopo la dissoluzione dei monasteri in epoca napoleonica.

Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum

Lichfield / Regno Unito

Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum is a biographical museum and bookshop located in the centre of the city of Lichfield, Staffordshire, in England. The building is a Grade I listed building situated at the corner of Market Street and Breadmarket Street opposite the market square.The museum opened in 1901 and is dedicated to the life and works of the author and lexicographer Samuel Johnson who wrote the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language. Johnson's father built the house in 1707 and Samuel was born in the house on 18 September 1709 and spent the majority of his first 27 years in the house before leaving for London in 1737. The house was used as a commercial property for various trades between the time of Johnson's death in 1784 until the house was bought for the city by John Gilbert in 1900 for the purpose of retaining the building as a museum to Johnson. The house remains in active use as a museum.

Staffordshire Regiment Museum

Lichfield / Regno Unito

The Staffordshire Regiment Museum is a military museum in Staffordshire, England, preserving the history of the Staffordshire Regiment , its antecedent regiments and its successor regiment, the Mercian Regiment, from 1705 to the present. The Staffordshire Regiment was an Infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1959 by the amalgamation of the South Staffordshire Regiment and the North Staffordshire Regiment.The museum is adjacent to Whittington Barracks, the former home of The Staffordshire Regiment's antecedent regiments since 1881, and the current base for the Regimental Headquarters of The Mercian Regiment and the Defence Medical Services. It is located in Whittington, Staffordshire on the A51 Lichfield-Tamworth Road, 3 miles from Lichfield and 4 miles from Tamworth. The museum is 6 miles from the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire.

Erasmus Darwin House

Lichfield / Regno Unito

Erasmus Darwin was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher beginning his journals on Galapagos Islands, physiologist, slave-trade abolitionist, inventor and poet. His poems included much natural history, including a statement of evolution and the relatedness of all forms of life. He was a member of the Darwin–Wedgwood family, which includes his grandsons Charles Darwin and Francis Galton. Darwin was a founding member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a discussion group of pioneering industrialists and natural philosophers. He turned down an invitation of George III's to become a physician to the King.