LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL, ENGLAND 

 This Cathedral, built of red sandstone, and dedicated to St. Mary and St. Chad, is more than 

 six hundred years old. The diocese of Lichfield was once coterminous with the kingdom of Mercia, 

 and no fewer than twelve other modern sees once were comprised, wholly or in part, within its borders. 

 Lichfield Cathedral has been styled the "Queen of English Minsters," and though surpassed by 

 others in age, size, grandeur of site, and elaborate decoration, it is not surpassed by them in exquisite 

 symmetry, proportion or picturesqueness of general effect. 



