Martyrs Plaque now has a more prominent position in the park after its move from the rockery in the Museum garden.

“The Martyrs’ Plaque is the remains of a sculpture originally set into the façade of Lichfield’s 18th century Guildhall. It takes its inspiration from the city’s common seal.

The plaque portrays three dismembered kings who, according to legend, led 999 Christians into battle against the Romans in around AD 288. The kings were defeated, became martyrs and part of local folklore.

It also shows Lichfield Cathedral, the slain kings’ weaponry, a lion, and Borrowcop Hill, thought to be the burial place of the kings.

During the Victorian rebuild of the Guildhall the plaque was taken off the building and later moved to a rockery in Beacon Park’s Museum Gardens.

The plaque lay in the rockery until 2010 when it was conserved as part of the Lichfield Historic Packs project, led by Lichfield District Council in partnership with Lichfield City Council. ”