Lichfield Cathedral has a beer mug on display, which used to be used to issue a measure of beer to lay-clerks as part of their payment. That doesn’t happen any more (or rather it still does, but indirectly via the lay-clerks’ bank accounts).
I joined Priory Voices for a weekend of services there at the end of July. The Sunday morning music was Widor’s Mass, which I’d only ever rehearsed before, not performed. It’s edited from a Mass he wrote for two choirs (not double choir) – you can still see the joins in places.
The canticles included Murrill in E (for the second time in a week!) and Noble in B minor and we used Sumsion’s responses. Early music included O Sacrum Convivium by Croce, Tallis’ O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit, and Let thy merciful ears, O Lord. So nothing that required too much straining against Lichfield’s high pitch, except possibly Joubert’s O Lorde the maker of al thing.
Because of illness we had two conductors during the weekend and repeated Saturday’s anthem on Sunday.