christmas Tree festival 2021

Lichfield Cathedral Tree Festival runs from 26th November, throughout the Festive Season until 2nd January.  The trees are decorated by local charities and schools and visitors can vote by putting a token in the box next to their favourite tree. If you are visiting Lichfield, please take look at the Festival and see what you think.

This year our tree at Lichfield Cathedral is focussed on the garden aspect of our trust.  Planning started in the summer, so we could reserve the best blooms and not cause too much damage to the plants by taking too many from one source.  The colour theme for this years’ tree is Copper and Blue.  Hydrangea blooms from members’ gardens have beensprayed blue to varying degrees, depending on how much colour the dried blooms retained achieving a toning hue.  Disc decorations have been made from air drying clay, using the imprints from various cut and pressed glass items.  These are sprayed blue and metallic copper twine used to hang them.  The tree topper was made in the same way, but sprayed copper.  Copper highlights have been added using sprayed oak leaves.  The names of the twenty parks and gardens that are intact and closest to the Cathedral are displayed on copper plant labels. We chose the ones nearest to the Cathedral as visitors could take the time to spot the ones they knew and perhaps seek out others that they were not aware of for their Christmas and New Years walks (please note not all sites are accessible to the public or on a public footpath). Space for detailed explanations is limited at the Cathedral, so we couldn’t show all the gardens in the area, but to refresh our memories, here is the list:

HISTORIC PARKS AND GARDENS NEAR LICHFIELD

IN CAPITALS INDICATE RECOGNISABLE SURVIVAL OF HISTORIC LANDSCAPE DESIGN AND LAYOUT FEATURED ON THE TREE

Aldershaw Hall

Amington Hall

Armitage Park

BEACON PARK

BEAUDESERT PARK

Bellamour Hall

BERRY HILL HOUSE

Burntwood Asylum  

Byrkley Lodge

CANWELL HALL 

Castle Pleasure Grounds, Tamworth 

CATHEDRAL CLOSE

Clifton Hall

Comberford Hall

Croxall Hall

Drayton Manor

ELFORD HALL

Elmhurst Park

FISHERWICK PARK

Fradley Old Hall

Freeford Hall

Hamstall Hall

HANCH HALL

Haunton Hall

HAWKSYARD PRIORY

Kings Bromley Hall

LITTLE ASTON HALL

LITTLE WYRLEY HALL

LYSWAYS HALL

Manley Hall

MAPLE HAYES

ORGREAVE HALL

Packington Hall

SHENSTONE COURT

Shenstone Park

STATFOLD HALL

Streethay Manor

SWINFEN HALL

THE MANOR HOUSE, TAMWORTH

THORPE HALL

Whittington Hall

WIGGINTON HALL

Wychnor Hall