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Description: Bishop's Palace, Lichfield Cathedral Close, plan of 1685. Key: 1: Lodging or other room 2: Tower, 52ft high, each edge 13ft on the outside 3: Bishop's Lodging room 4: Second tower, each edge 10ft 5 & 6: Pantry 7 & 8: Buttery (i.e. buttress) made out into the Dimples 9: Stairs into passage under Ladies Chamber 10: Open ground for a sough for the rain water from the roofs of the chapel and kitchen 11: Open ground for pens for poultry etc. 12: Coach house with folding doors 13: Stables 14: Where there was a dunghill 15: Lodging rooms for the Bishop's gentlemen, 20ft high 16: Porter's chamber over gateway 17: Gatehouse chamber over gateway 18: Stairs up side of buttress
Title: Bishops Palace Old Plan
Credit: Scan from Victoria County History Volume XIV: Lichfield,fig 12, p63 Based on a Drawing in the Bodleian Library, MS. Tanner 217, f.42
Author: MS. Tanner
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