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Join festival evensong with the first female Dean of Lichfield Cathedral the Rt Revd Jan McFarlane.

McFarlane is Dean of Lichfield and an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Lichfield. She is a former speech and language therapist and has also served as Bishop of Repton and Archdeacon of Norwich. She is the first female dean in the 1,300-year history of Lichfield Cathedral and was one of the first female priests and bishops in the Church of England.

The festival evensong at Pusey House is free and no booking is required.

Pusey House in St Giles was opened in 1884 as a memorial to Edward Bouverie Pusey, Regius Professor of Hebrew and Canon of Christ Church, who was for 40 years a figurehead of the Oxford Movement, a movement of high church members of the Church of England. Its chapel, designed by Temple Moore and decorated by Ninian Comper, is known as a fine example of Gothic design.