Guildhall Lichfield

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🌍Twinning is coming to Lichfield!
Friday 2 October – Monday 5 October 2026🌍

This October, Lichfield City Council is excited to welcome visitors from our twin cities in Ste. Foy-lès-Lyon (France) and Limburg an der Lahn (Germany) for a weekend of friendship, culture and community.

✨We’re seeking local business sponsors to help us showcase the very best of Lichfield. ✨

Why Sponsor?
* Show your support for a valued civic tradition
* Help strengthen international friendships
* Strengthen our cultural community

Your support, however small, will help us to deliver welcome activities, event materials and more!

If you’d like to get involved, contact Harriet at [email protected] or call 01543 309858.

Lichfield Twinning Association Twinning Officer

03/06/2026

Lichfield Guildhall Old Prison Cells

Open to the public on Saturday 10am-4pm from April to September with volunteers on hand to assist you

The prison on the ground floor has been in existence since about 1545, and originally had 11 cells. These included two cells for debtors and a condemned cell in which prisoners were kept before ex*****on. The last prisoners kept in the condemned cell were later publicly hanged at the City Gallows at the junction of Tamworth Road and London Road in 1810.

However, Lichfield appears to have been a fairly law-abiding city for in a report made by the Corporation in 1823 it was stated that it would be a great hardship to the inhabitants to enlarge the prison and appoint a regular chaplain and surgeon as required by the Gaol Act, as, “the average number of prisoners does not require the same, there being for some periods no prisoners in the gaol for months together.”

The cells contain a small exhibition for public view. The old oak chest formerly contained the City’s charters and other important documents. It has six separate locks; each of the six aldermen had a key to one lock, so that all had to be present whenever the chest was opened.

https://guildhall.lichfield.gov.uk/history/

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