James Rawson
| James Rawson BA, MD | |||||||
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| Residence | Lichfield | ||||||
| Occupation | medical | ||||||
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In A6:2 a circle by his name which generally indicates resignation
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[Church of St Chad, Lichfield] St Chad's Well is located in the churchyard to the north west of the church. The well is built over what was a spring and it is reputed that St Chad prayed on a stone at the spring, baptised his converts and healed peoples ailments in its sacred waters. This Holy well had become a popular place of pilgrimage by the 16th Century.
In the 1830s James Rawson, a local physician, saw to it that the water supply was improved and an ornate octagonal stone structure was erected over the well.[3] When the water dried up by the early 1920s, the well was lined with brick and a pump was fitted to the spring that fed it.[4] The stone structure was demolished in the 1950s and was replaced with the simple timber structure with tiled canopy we see today.
[James Rawson 1864 in Gentleman's magazine]: “Whatever the well might have been originally, it had, by the year 1833, degenerated into a most undignified puddle, more than six feet deep . . .
.....from two men of far-advanced age, in the year 1833, I learned that the supply of clear water around the well had become much lessened by the drainage of the lower meadows during the latter part of the eighteenth century, At all events, by the date
first named here, the well-basin had become filled up with mud and filth; and on top of this impurity a stone had been placed was described by the sight-showers as the identical stone on which St Chad used to kneel and pray!
For my own part, hoping by means of a public subscription to procure a new supply of water for the site of this ancient baptistry . . . I endeavoured to exclude the surface water of the old marsh land from the well, because of this surface water being loaded with orchre: and, as a feeder for the well, a supply of clear water was carefully obtained from the rock at a moderate distance, for close to the well a running sand became an impediment to the work. Over the well an octagonal building was erected with a saxon-headed doorway, and a stone roof surmounted by a plain Latin cross .”
[London Medical Gazette vol. 12 1833] A Mr James Rawson has written us an angry letter from Lichfield, and like most angry people has blinked the main question ...
[?] Thomas James Rawson, M. D.
Born: Abt 1807 - Glassealy House, Co. Kildare , Ireland
Marr: Bet 1837 and 1841 -
Died: 12 Oct 1881 - Barrowville, Carlow, Ireland
