Great Mistakes at Lichfield Cathedral

This is what I hope to be the first in a series for English Cathedrals, telling their architectural history through the funnest part: the bits where they screwed up!

Here I visit Lichfield Cathedral in Staffordshire, in the Middle Ages joint-head of the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, heir of an important Mercian religious centre. Its cathedral, despite ravages of the English Civil War, James "Destroyer" Wyatt's hamfisted fixer-uppers and Gilbert Scott's Victorian sheen, still displays many typical thumb-prints of its medieval builders.

Music is short excerpts from each movement of criminally under-regarded English composer Havergal Brian's Symphony No. 1, "The Gothic". They are all taken from a radio recording of the 1980 performance under champion of the unfamiliar Ole Schmidt, not any of the commercial releases. So hope it is educational fair use for this incredible work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphon...)

Listen to the 1989 recording (the only non-live recording that exists) on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/album/4uQiqP...

I mean, if you have two hours spare and want to spend it listening to a mindbogglingly gigantic orchestral force (nearly unlistenable without Spotify Premium, because it's split into so many tracks)