tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561249004966522983.post900570499281302931..comments2024-03-28T14:38:09.470+00:00Comments on Patrick Comerford: Restoration work and new library breathe life back into Saint Mary’s Church, LichfieldPatrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561249004966522983.post-50068037045233689282019-09-20T09:14:17.343+01:002019-09-20T09:14:17.343+01:00I see that the altar from the Dyott Chapel has bee...I see that the altar from the Dyott Chapel has been placed in front of the High Altar. Originally it came from the Children’s Chapel, which is where the lift shaft now is. I wonder if they’ll continue to turn it around so that the Noah’s Ark scene can be better viewed than the Nativity. <br /><br />The monument to Prebendary Cresswell reminds me of the times I looked after the Church Office on a Friday evening, especially during the interregnum between Rev’d Derek Smith and Rev’d David Beedon. The study had been emptied of most books and on one occasion I forgot to take a book with me, for those quiet spells when no one wanted to book a wedding or a baptism. So, I picked up a notebook lying there. It turned out to be the PCC Minutes from Prebendary Cresswell’s time, handwritten in a scholarly hand.<br /><br />Most of the contents were mundane but then a section describes how the widowed Vicar of St Mary’s and his daughter were reduced to close rooms off because they couldn’t afford to heat them. This was St Mary’s house, of course, now the Diocesan Offices.Catmintnoreply@blogger.com