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Prince of Wales Rd Head Post Office lit [1627]
1937-05-13
Hardwick House lit for coronation celebrations. |
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Aylsham Rd Capitol night illumination [0318]
1934-11-26
Opened 1932. |
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Bethel St 67 coronation floodlit [1616] 1937-05-12
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Bethel St view of Clock tower illuminated [2819]
1938-10-27
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Bethel St view of Clock tower illuminated [2820]
1938-10-27
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Wensum Bishop Bridge south side illuminated [6745]
1991-11-08
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Cow Tower from east illuminated [6747] 1991-11-08
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Castle Meadow 3 hotel Jubilee floodlit [0533]
1935-05-05
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Bridge over inner ditch illuminated [2827] 1938-10-28
Floodlit during Civic Week, 1938. |
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Bridge over inner ditch illuminated [2828] 1938-10-28
Floodlit during Civic Week, 1938. |
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Keep south side Jubilee floodlit [0532] 1935-05-05
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Chapel Field Gardens pagoda Jubilee lit [0535]
1935-05-06
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St Ethelbert's Gate Jubilee floodlit [0529]
1935-05-05
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Pull's Ferry Watergate E side illuminated [6746]
1991-11-08
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Erpingham Gate Jubilee floodlit [0530] 1935-05-05
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Spire vista floodlit from SW [5732] 1977-03-12
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Spire vista floodlit from SW [5733] 1977-03-12
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West front coronation floodlit [1611] 1937-05-12
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Duke St 5 Electricity works floodlit [1634]
1937-05-13
Municipal offices until 1938. Electricity department. |
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Duke St 4 Electricity works floodlit [1633]
1937-05-13
Municipal offices until 1938. Electricity department. |
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Fyebridge St 17 Howard's fishshop floodlit [1630]
1937-05-13
For 1937 coronation celebrations. |
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Fyebridge St coronation floodlit [1629] 1937-05-13
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Haymarket view south from White Lion St [0364]
1935-02-20
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Haymarket Picture House night illumination [0316]
1934-11-20
The Haymarket Picture House (latterly known as the
Gaumont Cinema) opened in 1911, was enlarged in 1921
(architect J.Owen Bond) and again in 1929. Demolished
1959. |
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Market Place The Walk view S from London St [0355]
1935-02-12
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Market Place The Walk Lyons' and Samuel's [0320]
1934-11-26
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Market Place west side coronation floodlit [1632]
1937-05-13
Municipal offices until 1938. |
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East front floodlit [0315] 1934-11-20
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South side floodlit from Gaol Hill [0319] 1934-11-26
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East front Jubilee floodlit [0533a] 1935-05-05
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South side Jubilee floodlit [0534] 1935-05-05
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Orford Place shelter Jubilee floodlit [0536]
1935-05-06
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Prince of Wales Rd Regent Theatre at night [0323]
1934-11-26
Opened 1923. |
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St Andrew St Theatre de Luxe at night [0324]
1934-11-30
Opened 1910. |
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St Giles' tower floodlit from Cleveland Rd [5736]
1977-03-12
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St Giles' St Upper view west [0365] 1935-02-20
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St Peter's St facade illuminated [2821] 1938-10-27
The Guildhall for over 500 years was the seat of local
government in Norwich. Until the Municipal Reform Act of
1835 this had been sufficient for the purpose, but from
that time onwards the duties and responsibilities of the
Corporation began to grow. Order was kept by the new
police, who first appeared in public on lst March 1836.
Ten years later powers were delegated to the Watch
Committee to appoint a fire brigade of six men, whose
business it was to attend all fires in Norwich with the
Corporation engine; this came to be housed in the old
felons' room of the Guildhall, requiring a doorway of
suitable width to be constructed on the north side,
leading to Guildhall Hill.
The flint-faced wing adjoining to the south of the
Guildhall was built in 1861 a cost of £800 in place of
the 18c brick porch and other outbuildings. Designed by
Thomas Barry, the city architect, the new wing provided
offices for the Town Clerk and Chief Constable, as well
as a waiting room and two cells.
This accommodation did not long suffice, and in 1876 the
Oxford Hotel on the west side of the market opposite the
Guildhall was purchased. By degrees the entire block was
absorbed, and as Corporation business grew still more,
mansions in St Giles' St and elsewhere were adapted and a
"tin hut" for the police was provided on the
site of the old Butchery.
In the meantime, in 1898, the fire engine had been moved
to new headquarters in Pottergate.
Although in that same year the council passed a
resolution recognising that something more would have to
be done, and plans were even drawn up for new offices on
the east side of St Peter's St, time and again the
decision to build was deferred. Nevertheless, bit-by-bit
property was acquired on a site opposite to that
originally proposed, between St Giles' and Bethel St, and
plans were drawn up for a range of new buildings on this
large site to accommodate all the Corporation's many
services. The new fire station in Bethel St was completed
in 1934, and four years later King George VI and Queen
Elizabeth came to Norwich to open the City Hall.
At the time the design of the latter did not meet with
unqualified approval - the comedian Norman Long likened
it to a marmalade factory. (A year or so previously
somebody else had compared the Shakespeare Memorial
Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon to a jam factory.) The
clock tower was picked out for particular criticism
partly because of its estimated cost and also because of
fears that it would dwarf the Guildhall. Nevertheless,
nowadays the building has come to be accepted as a worthy
enhancement to the municipal centre of Norwich. |
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St Peter Mancroft floodlit from SW [5734] 1977-03-12
"A tower, N and S porches, nave, N and S aisles, N
and S transepts, chancel aisles and treasury.....Entirely
rebuilt and finished in 1455, it stretches between two
thoroughfares, and therefore has arches on the S and N of
tower and a passage under the E end so that processions
around the building could be on consecrated
ground.....The tower is very fine with rectangular
buttresses, niched and canopied in all stages....The
buttresses merge at the top with crocketted octagonal
turrets....The west front has deeply recessed jambs to
doorway with two rows of ornaments, one with shields in
traceried panels and one with quatrefoils....A great W
window with the emblems of St Peter and St Paul in the
spandrils. The tower is crowned with a modern fleche
after the style of that at East Harling. At the E end of
the chancel are fine octagonal turrets, the drums pierced
and traceried and with crocketted tops. The magnificent
clerestory of 17 large three-light windows, has very
narrow piers between them with little buttresses outside.
The interior is most impressive. At the W end is a nobly
moulded and lofty tower arch, with ringers gallery below
it. The nave and chancel are continuous, and have the
fine feature of the aisles stopping one bay short of the
E end to admit windows N and S to light the altar. The
loft arcades on clustered columns have canopied niches
above the piers, supporting a short shaft capped with
large angels from which spring the wall-posts. The lovely
roof is similar to those at Ringland and Framlingham
(Suff.) but is finer than any of them. It is a
hammer-beam and arch-braced roof, but the hammer-beams
are concealed by fine vaulting....The font was
undoubtedly a Seven Sacrament one though the panels are
completely obliterated.....It stands on two traceried
steps and has a remarkable 15c canopy 5' 6" square
like Trunch. The 10" carved posts at the corners are
all that remain of the original canopy, the top being a
poor restoration. Space will not permit me to describe
the wonderful glass of the E window which has 42 panels
(7 modern) but I think the most interesting panel is the
Annunciation....Behind the Sanctuary is "The
Treasury" so called, which is a three-storey
structure, containing the Sacristy on the top floor,
below the vestment chamber,...and below that a
crypt.....The Sacristy is full of interesting
things....not least the magnificent church plate."
(H.Munro Cautley F.S.A. A.R.I.B.A. in Norfolk Churches,
1949). |
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Surrey St Norwich Union Surrey House lit [2822]
1938-10-27
Erected 1901, architect George J.Skipper. |
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Montcalm Rd view of Water tower illuminated [0526]
1935-05-05
Lit for silver Jubilee celebrations. |
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Quebec Rd view of Water tower illuminated [0527]
1935-05-05
Lit for silver Jubilee celebrations. |
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Thorpe Rd 11 Ailwyn Hall Jubilee floodlit [0528]
1935-05-05
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Tombland 15 to 16 Samson Hercules floodlit [1628]
1937-05-13
For coronation. |
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Tombland 24 St Ethelbert's House floodlit [1631]
1937-05-13
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St John's RC floodlit from Convent Rd [5735]
1977-03-12
The building is on the site of the old City Gaol, and was
completed in 1910. In 1976 the church was elevated to the
status of a cathedral upon the formation of the Roman
Catholic See of East Anglia. |
Norwich at Night
