1. Cathedral Guilds
• The Guild of Servers
• The Guild of Embroiderers
• The Flower Guild
• The Guild of Ringers
• The Guild of Stewards
• Guides and Welcomers
2. Musical Groups
• Lichfield Cathedral Chamber Choir
• Lichfield Cathedral Special Choir
3. Other Groups
• The Erasmus Darwin Foundation
• The Patrons of Lichfield Cathedral
• The Friends of Lichfield Cathedral
• Lichfield Cathedral School
• The Sunday School and Crèche
• Diocesan Digest Sound Magazine

Cathedral Guilds

The Guild of Servers [Contact]

The servers help with the worship in the Cathedral at regular services and at major diocesan and other services. 

The Guild of Embroiderers [Contact]

The Guild of Embroiderers meet regularly and maintain the vestments, frontals, and kneelers of the Cathedral, as well as making new kneelers, frontals etc. 

The Flower Guild [Contact]

The aim of the Flower Guild is to enhance the worship at Lichfield Cathedral through the beauty of flowers. In consultation with the Precentor we highlight the saints days and festivals throughout the year, tieing in the flowers in colour and variety and also by interpretation. This can be a real challenge to bring change and renewal to the same festivals each year, but one we all enjoy and which gives an enormous sense of achievement and privilege. 

The Guild of Ringers [Contact]

The Cathedral has a tower with ten bells, and the bellringers practise every Monday night. 

The Guild of Stewards [Contact]

The stewards welcome people to services and events in the Cathedral and deal with seating and good order. 

Guides and Welcomers [Contact]

The Guides are a trained group who interpret the Cathedral to visitors. They meet monthly to share out the booked parties and continue their own training and put on free daily public guided tours between Easter and September starting at 2.00pm at the West End of the Cathedral. The Welcomers are responsible for the welcome of casual visitors to the Cathedral. They are trained in hospitality, and to answer visitors' queries. The Cathedral also has a team of Chaplains, who help with this work and are available for pastoral work. 

Musical Groups

Lichfield Cathedral Chamber Choir [Contact]

The Lichfield Cathedral Chamber Choir was founded in 1980 by Peter King, now organist at Bath Abbey. The choir's current conductor is Martyn Rawles.

Lichfield Cathedral Special Choir [Contact]

The choir has been making music in Lichfield since 1959, when the Cathedral organist Dick Greening put together a scratch choir of 65 singers for a performance of Handel's Messiah. The “special” in our name derives from the original purpose of the choir, which was to stand in for the Cathedral choir during vacations. Since then the choir has grown considerably in size, and now has around 130 members. Although we no longer deputise for the Cathedral choir, we have maintained our close association with the Cathedral over the years, with successive Cathedral Organists also taking on the role of conductor of the Special Choir.

Other Groups

The Erasmus Darwin Foundation

Erasmus Darwin, the grandfather of Charles Darwin, lived in Darwin House on the western edge of The Close from 1758-1781 before moving to Derbyshire. He was an eminent physician and a considerable poet, an inventor and founder member of the Lunar Society. Above all he was a scientist establishing a botanic garden and publishing books on plant and animal life in which he outlined the process of evolution. 

The Patrons of Lichfield Cathedral [Contact]

The Friends of Lichfield Cathedral [Contact]

Founded in 1937 to support the Cathedral in its worship and ministry; to maintain and enhance the fabric of the building, to support its musical activities, and to develop fellowship. The Friends of the Cathedral, originally known as The Fellowship of St Chad, was founded in 1937 with HRH The Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester as the Patron. 

Lichfield Cathedral School [Contact]

In 1942, Lichfield Cathedral School was founded to provide a Preparatory School education for the Cathedral Choristers together with some non-Choristers. Over the years it has developed into a school of some 230 boys and girls form the age of 4 to 13+. The 24 choristers and probationers board at the school and sing for the majority of services in the Cathedral. Voice trials are held annually at the end of January, or by appointment at other times of the year. 

The Sunday School and Crèche [Contact]

The Sunday School and Crèche runs each Sunday during the Morning Eucharist. A course of study is followed and all the children join the congregation at the Offertory. 

Diocesan Digest Sound Magazine [Contact]

The objective of the Diocesan Digest is to relieve the blind, or the partially-sighted, or those labouring under some temporary or permanent incapacity or disability which makes reading a strain, by the provision of a regular monthly edition of recorded tapes each of 90 minutes duration.