2-888-168 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Corn Exchange and Market Hall, just erected at Lichfield, [Staffordshire], 1850. 'In 1848, the present Mayor of Lichfield formed the project of a Corn Exchange and Market Hall, and by his energy...the present building was commenced and finished.' View '...from Tamworth-street, [showing] the principal front towards Conduit-street, and the Savings-Bank in Bore-street...The whole of the works were completed by Messrs. Scott and Collyer...The design is by Messrs. Johnson and Son, of Lichfield; the building is in the Elizabethan style, and consists of an arcade extending the entire length of the principal front, which leads into a spacious covered market. The upper room is the Corn Exchange, approached by a broad flight of stone steps, and is 63 feet in length and 34 feet wide. It is calculated to contain from 600 to 800 persons'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.