Derelict-looking buildings on Rose Lane
A Tour of the Cathedral, Norwich, Norfolk - 2nd December 2023
Isobel's off to Norwich to do a first aid course at St. John Ambulance on King Street, so there are a few hours to kill whilst that happens. A walk around, starting at the dodgy bits around Rose Lane, ends up in Norwich Cathedral, where a guided tour is about to take place. Having been to the cathedral possibly hundreds of times over the years, but having never done the tour, it seems like a good idea to do one. It's super-interesting too, and reveals lots of details never before seen and stories never before heard. After the tour, the walk continues around to the mediaeval Cow Tower, and then into the city via the subterranean gloom of the subway under St. Stephen's Street.
next album: The Lost Architecture of Ipswich, Suffolk - 11th December 2023
previous album: The Christmas Lights Switch On, Eye, Suffolk - 1st December 2023
Some sort of old garage on Rose Lane
The old Peppermint Park nightclub
Wheelie bins by a manky door
Looking up Prince of Wales Road
Another look at the old Railway Mission
The Prince of India seems frozen in time
The old Prince of India restaurant
There's a nice old car outside the Maid's Head
The spire of the Cathedral disappears into the mist
A window depicting the life of Julian of Norwich
The oldest part of the cathedral, from 1096
Fragments of mediaeval wall paintings
The treasury ceiling
The High Altar in the chancel
Gothic windows and roof over Norman arches
The Choir, and the cathedral's organ
Modern blue-and-yellow stained glass
Nice modern glass along an aisle
The Milennium window, and the north transept
The restored C19th nave window
Looking west along the nave
Another nice stained glass window
Orange and purple light along the aisle
Re-purposed Rowntree factory vessels
Some of the 1000+ mediaeval ceiling bosses
The parting of the Red Sea as a ceiling boss
One of the few Tudor-decorated chantries
The origin story of the cathedral, in wall art
Some of the 15th century misericords
An interpretation of an unseen pelican as a lecturn
A Union flag from the Napoleonic wars
The late-C14th Despenser Retable
Three possible seating positions in the cloisters
Jesus on the cross in the cloisters
Pull's Ferry on the River Wensum
Classic view of Pull's Ferry and the C12th slipway
The cathedral behind the grammar school rugby pitch
The Red Lion pub on Bishopgate
The C14th Bishop Bridge at Bishopgate
A Fast-Fit garage on Riverside Road
The mediaeval Cow Tower
Inside Cow Tower
Edith Cavell's grave outside the cathedral
Cool 1950s building on St. Andrew's Street
A derelict shop on Swan Lane
Patisserie Valerie is falling apart
The old puppet guy does his thing outside Lloyds
The Salvation Army is playing on Gentleman's Walk
The Sally Army band on Gentleman's Walk
Not much is happening on the Haymarket
Graffiti on Orford Place
Debenhams grows increasingly derelict
A 1960s hold-out on St. Stephen's Street
The eyesore that is St. Stephen's car park
A 1920s building on Chapelfield Road
Pineapples on the St. Stephen's subway
A grimy subway intersection
More graffiti in an underpass
Tattered posters on a subway wall
A lurid Chinese supermarket on Queen's Road
A remnant of the old Norwich Union
Another 50s office block on All Saints Green
The curious 1930s building is still there
An old building is absorbed by the modern
Paradise Place isn't really
The church of St. Julian, and the hermit cell
The graffiti'd derelict shop in King Street
Isobel's in the St. John Ambulance HQ
A cool 1937 stone in a building
A painted dinosaur in Castle Mall
A horse and a duck in a courtyard
Isobel waits outside a kebab shop
The house looks like we've done it up for halloween
The boys find some ice in the side field
Fred shows off some cool sculpted ice
The boys run off into the mist
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Derelict-looking buildings on Rose Lane
Derelict-looking buildings on Rose Lane
Some sort of old garage on Rose Lane
The old Peppermint Park nightclub
Wheelie bins by a manky door
Looking up Prince of Wales Road
Another look at the old Railway Mission
The Prince of India seems frozen in time
The old Prince of India restaurant
There's a nice old car outside the Maid's Head
The spire of the Cathedral disappears into the mist
A window depicting the life of Julian of Norwich
The oldest part of the cathedral, from 1096
Fragments of mediaeval wall paintings
The treasury ceiling
The High Altar in the chancel
Gothic windows and roof over Norman arches
The Choir, and the cathedral's organ
Modern blue-and-yellow stained glass
Nice modern glass along an aisle
The Milennium window, and the north transept
The restored C19th nave window
Looking west along the nave
Another nice stained glass window
Orange and purple light along the aisle
Re-purposed Rowntree factory vessels
Some of the 1000+ mediaeval ceiling bosses
The parting of the Red Sea as a ceiling boss
One of the few Tudor-decorated chantries
The origin story of the cathedral, in wall art
Some of the 15th century misericords
An interpretation of an unseen pelican as a lecturn
A Union flag from the Napoleonic wars
The late-C14th Despenser Retable
Three possible seating positions in the cloisters
Jesus on the cross in the cloisters
Pull's Ferry on the River Wensum
Classic view of Pull's Ferry and the C12th slipway
The cathedral behind the grammar school rugby pitch
The Red Lion pub on Bishopgate
The C14th Bishop Bridge at Bishopgate
A Fast-Fit garage on Riverside Road
The mediaeval Cow Tower
Inside Cow Tower
Edith Cavell's grave outside the cathedral
Cool 1950s building on St. Andrew's Street
A derelict shop on Swan Lane
Patisserie Valerie is falling apart
The old puppet guy does his thing outside Lloyds
The Salvation Army is playing on Gentleman's Walk
The Sally Army band on Gentleman's Walk
Not much is happening on the Haymarket
Graffiti on Orford Place
Debenhams grows increasingly derelict
A 1960s hold-out on St. Stephen's Street
The eyesore that is St. Stephen's car park
A 1920s building on Chapelfield Road
Pineapples on the St. Stephen's subway
A grimy subway intersection
More graffiti in an underpass
Tattered posters on a subway wall
A lurid Chinese supermarket on Queen's Road
A remnant of the old Norwich Union
Another 50s office block on All Saints Green
The curious 1930s building is still there
An old building is absorbed by the modern
Paradise Place isn't really
The church of St. Julian, and the hermit cell
The graffiti'd derelict shop in King Street
Isobel's in the St. John Ambulance HQ
A cool 1937 stone in a building
A painted dinosaur in Castle Mall
A horse and a duck in a courtyard
Isobel waits outside a kebab shop
The house looks like we've done it up for halloween
The boys find some ice in the side field
Fred shows off some cool sculpted ice
The boys run off into the mist