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Lichfield Dean and Chapter

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Date: 1100-2000
Places:
  • Lichfield, Staffordshire
Functions, occupations and activities: Church of England > Dean and chapters | Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Collegiate churches
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C12659 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O38731 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
12th-20th cent: records
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office
D30
See HMC 37: 14th Report, App VIII, 205-36; GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (566-7, 574)
2
13th-20th cent: cathedral library collection, incl Magnum Registrum Album and other cathedral cartularies and statute books
Lichfield Cathedral Library
MS Lich
NRA 19287 Lichfield L

See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (563, 568, 570-3, 575); Monastic Research Bulletin 3,p19
3
1297: accounts
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office
D593/O/2/14
NRA 10699 Leveson-Gower

See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 (101a)
4
Lichfield chronicle
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Cotton Cleopatra D.IX.1
See NRA 19287, MS Lich 41
5
14th-16th cent: cartularies
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Harley MSS 3868, 4799, 3839, 5249
See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (562, 564)
6
1321-1384: chapter act books
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Ashmole 794
See HMC 37: 14th Report, App VIII, 226; Davis Medieval Cartularies (576)
7
15th cent: cartulary
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Ashmole 1527
See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (565)
8
15th cent: precentor's cartulary (?copy)
Warwickshire County Record Office
CR1886
NRA 21669 Warwick Castle MSS

See Monastic Research Bulletin 3,p19
9
15th-16th cent: Lichfield chronicle
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
Ashmole 770
See NRA 19287, MS Lich 26
10
1639-1935: corresp, plans, financial, property and court records
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office
D412
11
1660-1984: baptism, marriage and burial registers of the cathedral close
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office
D102
NRA 29523
12
1670: accounts
Warwickshire County Record Office
644-5
NRA 13985 Greswolde
13
19th-20th cent: architects' drawings, installation papers, property and personnel files, accounts and other records
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office
D289-90
NRA 29523

See Annual Return 1999
14
1842-1937: cathedral corresp etc 1913-33, choir papers 1842-early 20 th cent, chapter business 1916-37, diocesan events early 20th cent
Lichfield Cathedral Library
NRA 20445 Savage
15
1851-1975: architects' drawings of Lichfield Cathedral and Lichfield Theological College
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office
D339
See Annual Return 2001
16
1875-1981: further records incl administrative and financial papers and material rel to property holding and cathedral fabric
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office
D290
NRA 29523
17
1915-1988: clerk's corresp rel to estates, and corresp rel to Lichfield Cathedral Appeal Fund
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office
D331