Lichfield St Mary in 1859

LICHFIELD (ST MARY) The city comprises portions of the PARISHES of St. Mary, of which that part in the borough contains 2634 inhabitants; St. Chad, containing 2036; and St. Michael, containing 1887; and the liberty of the Cathedral Close, which is extra-parochial, with 190 inhabitants. 

The living of St. Mary's is a discharged vicarage, with Statfold annexed, valued in the king's books at £10; net income, £458; patrons and appropriators, the Dean and Chapter. The church is a modern edifice, erected on the site of an ancient structure described by Leland as "right beautiful."

An 1859 Gazetteer description of the following places in Lichfield St Mary is to be found on a supplementary page.

Tillington Worston

 

[Description(s) from The Topographical Dictionary of England (1859) by Samuel Lewis - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]