Chad of Mercia
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Chad was a prominent 7th-century Anglo-Saxon monk. He was an abbot, Bishop of the Northumbrians and then Bishop of the Mercians and Lindsey People. After his death he was known as a saint.
Stained glass depiction from Saint Chad's Church in Hanmer, Maelor, Wales
From a late copy of The old Englisch Homely on the life of St. Chad, c. 1200, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
The altar in the crypt of the Church of St Mary, Lastingham, probable site of the early Anglo-Saxon church where Cedd and Chad officiated at Eucharist
The Lichfield Angel, a part of his Anglo-Saxon shrine in Lichfield Cathedral
Mercia
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Mercia was an early medieval English kingdom, one of the seven kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon period. It was centred on the River Trent and its tributaries, in a region now known as the Midlands of Engla
Chad of Mercia
…also a saint. He features strongly in the work of Bede and is credited, together with Bishop Wilfrid of Ripon, with introducing Christianity to the Mercian kingdom. Most of what is known of Chad comes from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People and, to a lesser extent, Stephen of Ripon's Vita Sancti…
The Staffordshire Hoard, discovered in a field in Hammerwich, near Lichfield in July 2009, is perhaps the most important collection of Anglo-Saxon objects found in England
The Lichfield Angel carving
Giant Mercia flag on Tamworth castle created by community groups in 2024