2025 Venue

In 2025, Lichfield Festival of Music will be held at Wade Street Church. The Festival is most grateful to the Church for their enthusiastic help in planning and managing the Festival.

Location

The Church stretches from Wade Street to Frog Lane, with the main entrance for anyone involved with the Festival classes being Frog Lane. It sits close to the city centre and is very close to the bus and train stations.

The address and postcode are: Wade Street Church, Frog Lane, Lichfield, WS13 6HS

Facilities

There are no refreshment facilities being made available at the Church: the closest for supplies is Tesco Express, a 2 minute walk into town, on Bakers Lane, close to the Garrick Theatre.

Accessibility

Note there is church access for wheelchairs and disabled access toilets are available.

How to Get Here

Bus: the Church is a 3 minute walk from the bus station. Head out of the back of the bus station towards the Cathedral, and on to Wade Street.

Train: the Church is a 5 minute walk from Lichfield City train station. Cross the main road outside the station and walk through the back of the bus station towards the Cathedral and on to Wade Street.

Car: there is very limited parking immediately by the Church on Wade Street and on Frog Lane. Nearby car parks are:

• District Council car park (2 mins walk) WS13 6HP (busy at weekends)
• The Friary open air car park (7 mins walk) WS13 6QH
• Bird Street car park (7 min walk) WS13 6PR (busy at weekends)
• The Friary multi-storey car park (8 mins walk) WS13 6QE (2 x 22kW EV chargers)

History of Wade Street Church

The Church, originally Salem Chapel in Wade Street, opened in 1812 and is still used today more or less unchanged. It is a listed building because it is one of the few examples of Georgian Nonconformist chapels in the Midlands. You will notice that there are very few adornments in the Church – no statues, no stained glass windows, no candles etc. That’s because the people who built it did not want anything to distract them from their worship or from what the preacher was saying. In 1994, the Church joined up with the Baptist Church to form a Local Ecumenical Partnership – a Church in which people from more than one denomination worship together, and the Church is now very much involved with the wider community in many different ways.