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St Andrew's Hall Plain: |
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Blackfriars' St Andrew's Hall south side [0147]
1934-07-01
History of Blackfriars (Dominican Friary)
1226 - Dominicans settle in Colegate, north of River
Wensum
1258 - Sackfriars settle in Norwich, south of River
Wensum
1307 - Sackfriars suppressed; Blackfriars succeed to
their site
1345 - Blackfriars commence building
1413 - Fire causes evacuation to old site "over the
water"
1449 - Rebuilding so far progressed that community able
to return to south side; the nave was built at the
expense of Sir Thomas Erpingham who died in 1428 before
it was completed
1538 - Convent suppressed; buildings obtained for the
City by Augustine Steward
1712 - The buildings had been put to various uses and had
been somewhat neglected with the result that the steeple
fell off and was not rebuilt
1713 - The Quire of the church having been used for some
time by the Strangers (Walloons or Dutch) was granted to
them on a 200 year lease
1876 - The original church known as Becket's Chapel was
wilfully destroyed
In recent times the buildings have been used for various
purposes, mainly educational, and the conventual church
was for many years the home of the Norwich Triennial
Musical Festival. |
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Blackfriars' St Andrew's Hall west end [1041]
1936-06-20
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Blackfriars' St Andrew's Hall two windows [3751]
1948-09-08
Decorated and Perpendicular windows. |
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Blackfriars' St Andrew's Hall interior east [3737]
1948-09-03
Nave of Dominican chapel. |
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Blackfriars' St Andrew's Hall interior west [3736]
1948-09-03
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Blackfriars' south aisle doorway sculpture [3752]
1948-09-08
19c. |
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Blackfriars' east cloister range [1039] 1936-06-20
An original dorter window adjoins the right-hand
buttress. |
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Blackfriars' chapter house column base [3750]
1948-09-03
South side of chapter house |
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Blackfriars' cloister garth SE angle [6628]
1990-08-07
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Blackfriars' western cloister range [5436] 1975-07-29
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Blackfriars' cloister north side foundation [5437]
1975-07-29
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Blackfriars' south cloister walk [3738] 1948-09-03
The cloister, which lies to the north of the nave, is
separated from it by a narrow lane (now covered in) and
lies on a different axis from the church. It remains
remarkably complete except for the north range which has
been destroyed, the Art School standing adjacent to the
site, but some details have been ascertained by
excavation. The cloister itself is roughly square of four
bays to each side, and like all friaries the cloister
walk runs along under the chambers, instead of forming
corridors against them. The whole of the cloister block
is 14c. |
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Blackfriars' south cloister walk N corbel [3739]
1948-09-03
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Blackfriars' south cloister walk S corbel [3740]
1948-09-03
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Blackfriars' crypt NE bay vaulting [3742] 1948-09-03
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Blackfriars' crypt southern half [3741] 1948-09-03
Ante-Chapel to Becket's Chapel, with brick vaulting. |
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Blackfriars' Thos A'Becket chapel fragment [3744]
1948-09-03
Thomas-a-Becket's Chapel having been unroofed and filled
in to the top of the walls towards end of 19c. |
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Blackfriars' Becket's chapel north wall [5337]
1972-12-30
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Blackfriars' Becket's chapel view NE [5339]
1972-12-30
Thomas-a-Becket's Chapel excavated 1972. |
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Blackfriars' Becket's chapel south wall [5338]
1972-12-30
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Blackfriars' Hall east end from Elm Hill [3753]
1948-09-08
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Blackfriars' Anchorite's house N wall E end [3743]
1948-09-03
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Blackfriars' confessional squint [3745] 1948-09-03
Squint formerly open to the church interior. |
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Blackfriars' Hall interior view west [3746]
1948-09-03
Before removal of war-time blackouts. |
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Blackfriars' Hall interior view east [3748]
1948-09-03
Before removal of war-time blackouts. |
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Blackfriars' Hall Hastings brass matrix [3749]
1948-09-03
Brass to Edmund and Eleanor Hasting. 1487. Near
south-east corner of Blackfriars' Hall. |
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Civic Week St Andrew's Hall guest arrivals [2830]
1938-10-29
Arrivals for luncheon following opening of City Hall. |
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Civic Week St Andrew's Hall guest arrivals [2831]
1938-10-29
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Civic Week St Andrew's Hall guest arrivals [2832]
1938-10-29
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Civic Week St Andrew's Hall guest arrivals [2833]
1938-10-29
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Civic Week St Andrew's Hall guest arrivals [2834]
1938-10-29
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Civic Week St Andrew's Hall Bishop arrival [2835]
1938-10-29
The Bishop of Norwich and Mrs Pollock. |
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Civic Week St Andrew's Hall King arrival [2836]
1938-10-29
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. |
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Civic Week St Andrew's Hall King arrival [2837]
1938-10-29
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Civic Week St Andrew's Hall bouquet arrival [2838]
1938-10-29
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Civic Week St Andrew's Hall surging crowds [2839]
1938-10-29
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Civic Week St Andrew's Hall King leaving [2840]
1938-10-29
The King and the Lord Mayor (Mr Charles Watling). |
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Civic Week St Andrew's Hall Queen leaving [2841]
1938-10-29
The Queen with Mrs Watling. |
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Civic Week St Andrew's Hall Queen leaving [2842]
1938-10-29
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St Andrew's Hill: |
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From
London St / Bedford
St to St Andrew's St
East side |
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St Andrew's Hill 1 to 1a [1108] 1936-07-12
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St Andrew's Hill 5 [1107] 1936-07-12
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St Andrew's Hill Suckling House portion [1913]
1937-08-23
Former Flint House PH. |
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St Andrew's Hill Suckling House [1106] 1936-07-12
Suckling House adjoins Suckling Hall to the west. It is
of Georgian period but part of the inside is much older.
Mrs Henley, Nelson' Great-Aunt, who was a Suckling, lived
here in the 18c.
"This is the great hall of a wealthy burgess's
mansion, erected in the 14th century with 15th century
additions. The hall lay between two courtyards of which
one has been destroyed by the modern roadway. The moulded
doorways, the fine open roof with king-post and oak door
of about 1510 should be noted in the hall, together with
the vaulted buttery at the north end. Suckling House was
in a ruinous condition as recently as 1918, but in
1923-25 it was restored and presented to a trust for
educational purposes by Misses Colman. Its present name
is due to the Suckling family who lived in it during the
16th century." (R.R.Clarke in The Archaeological
Journal Vol.CVI, 1949) |
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side |
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St Andrew's Hill 2 to 4 [1141] 1936-07-21
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St Andrew's Hill 8 to 10 [2742] 1938-08-27
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St Andrew's Hill 12 [2743] 1938-08-27
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St Andrew's Hill 12 doorway pediment [6084]
1980-05-13
Pediment and entablature containing carved Armorial
Bearings. |
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St Andrew's Hill 12 Georgian doorway [3252]
1939-08-13
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St Andrew's Hill Bridewell 1490 doorway [0452]
1935-04-14
Descending St Andrew's Hill from London St, there is
about halfway down on the left a wooden doorway thought
to date from about 1490, the former entrance to the
Bridewell. Its spandrels, carved to resemble foliage,
support a large wooden grille enclosed within the
doorframe. This grille, which in unglazed, is of Gothic
design and consists of two large lights, each divided
into four smaller ones by slender mullions which
interlace at the top like tracery in a church window.
Sadly two of these mullions have gone since the 1930s; in
view of the extreme rarity of such a doorway one would
like to see it sympathetically repaired and conserved to
prolong its existence for a few more centuries. |
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St Andrew's St: |
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From
St John
Maddermarket / Charing Cross / Duke
St to Redwell St
passing St George's St, St
Andrew's Hill
North side |
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St Andrew St Free Library [4366] 1955-08-24
Opened 16th March 1857. Demolished after the new central
library was opened 19th January 1963 by H.M the Queen
Mother. |
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St Andrew St 11 Public Assistance Office [1121]
1936-07-13
Municipal offices until 1938. Registrar's and Public
Assistance departments. Previously the Guardians of the
Poor. Built 1839 as the Norfolk and Norwich Literary
Institute. |
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Museum Court RC priest's house and chapel [1067]
1936-06-28
Municipal offices until 1938. Registrar's and Public
Assistance departments. Previously the Guardians of the
Poor. Originally a Catholic chapel and priest's house. |
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Museum Court RC priest's house and chapel [4245]
1954-05-12
In St Andrew's, almost opposite Exchange St, is the site
of Museum Court. The Duke of Norfolk and his family,
after pulling down the palace in Duke St and ceasing to
reside in Norwich, nevertheless retained possession of
the site. It was here in 1764 that Charles, the tenth
Duke, built a chapel with house adjoining for the
Reverend Edward Beaumont and his Roman Catholic
following, but they had to leave it after only 22 years,
since the next Duke (also Charles) was of the Established
Church. In 1794 the chapel was let to the Norwich
Subscription Library and the house to James Boyce,
attorney-at-law. But when in 1839 the Library moved to
new quarters on Guildhall Hill both chapel and house were
sold to the Norfolk and Norwich museum, thus, for the
time being at least, breaking the ties between the Dukes
of Norfolk and the city. Here the museum remained until
moving to the Castle in 1894. Since that date and until
the opening of the City Hall in 1938 it was the offices
of the Guardians of the Poor and their successors the
Public Assistance Committee. As to the cement-rendered
building of classical appearance that faced St Andrew's
St and adjoined the priest's house (pictured with the
chapel below), this was built on the site of the garden
of the house in 1839 for the Norwich Literary Institute. |
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Museum Court RC chapel ceiling view north [2921]
1939-04-08
Although the exterior of the chapel had no special
features to warrant more than a cursory inspection, the
interior well repaid a visit. It was lighted by ten upper
windows (five east and five west); the ceiling was thus
divided up into four complete bays and two half bays,
each containing an ornate central rose bordered by
embossed designs whose chief motif was a ducal crown.
Between each window the ceiling curved down to the level
of the springing of the arches of the semi-circular
window-heads, and raised in the plaster and forming a
frieze was a series of medallions, each of which was
surmounted by winged cherubim.
After some fruitless discussion as to whether the ceiling
at least could be saved, this and neighbouring property
were all cleared away for the widening of St Andrew's St
in 1966 and the subsequent building of a multi-storey car
park. |
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Museum Court RC chapel ceiling view SE [2547]
1938-07-16
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Museum Court RC chapel ceiling view SE [2548]
1938-07-16
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Museum Court RC chapel ceiling view SE [2922]
1939-04-08
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Museum Court RC chapel ceiling view south [2546]
1938-07-16
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Museum Court RC chapel ceiling view south [2920]
1939-04-08
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Silver Jubilee St Andrew's Harmer's factory [0518]
1935-05-05
Harmer's Clothing Factory, St Andrew's St, architect
Edward Boardman. Silver jubilee decorations. |
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St Andrew St 23 to 27 [2745] 1938-08-27
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St Andrew St Stamp Office Yard [6484] 1987-08-28
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St Andrew St Stamp Office Yard 1 rear [5141]
1967-05-16
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St Andrew St 29 to 35 [2746] 1938-08-27
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St Andrew St 37 [2755] 1938-08-27
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St Andrew St 2 classical shop front [6569] 1989-07-20
At the corner of St Andrew's and St John Maddermarket we
find the Shrub House, formerly licensed premises going
back many years but now a shop. Here until quite recently
were a pair of highly ornamented gates with a
semi-circular fanlight above. The latter was adorned with
a "rising sun" motif, the radiating bars formed
into a kind of "key" pattern. Several years ago
when the building was renovated the gates with their
fanlight were removed and the doorway bricked up. It has
since been unblocked and fitted with a pair of glazed
doors – which now give access to the St Andrew's
Tavern next door. This had formerly borne the sign of the
"Rumsey Wells" – an allusion to the
building's previous occupant, one of the
"characters" of Norwich. In his advertisements
he described himself as "The Most Expensive Capmaker
in the World"; his "doggie caps" in 1934
ranged from two guineas to half a guinea each. The old
shop was adorned with a number of plumed military helmets
and shakos under dust-retarding glass domes. |
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St Andrew St 2 Shrub House PH iron gate [2161]
1938-03-13
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St Andrew St 6 to 12 [1122] 1936-07-13
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St Andrew St 6 to 12 [5210] 1968-06-13
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St Andrew St 22 Parsonage street frontage [1055]
1936-06-27
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St Andrew St 22 Georgian doorway [0517] 1935-05-05
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St Andrew St 22 Parsonage W side [0771] 1936-01-01
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St Andrew St 22 Parsonage W side and tower [0772]
1936-01-01
Tower of St Andrew's church. |
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St Andrew St 22 Parsonage demolition [2075]
1938-01-20
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St Andrew St 22 Parsonage view SE with wall [2077]
1938-01-20
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St Andrew St Telephone exchange girderwork [2426]
1938-05-23
On the site of the old Parsonage House at 22 St Andrew
St. |
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St Andrew St former Girls' Model School [1054]
1936-06-27
Once formed part of house of Francis Rugge, Sheriff 1572,
Mayor 1598 and 1602. |
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St Andrew St Francis Rugge's house archway [2293]
1938-04-12
Wooden archway built c1470-90. |
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St Andrew St Theatre de Luxe at night [0324]
1934-11-30
Opened 1910. |
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St Andrew's north side [0120] 1934-06-15
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St Andrew's chancel from St Andrew's Hill [2281]
1938-04-10
Early 16c. |
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St Andrew's tower from Bridewell Alley [2282]
1938-04-10
96 feet. Built 1478 prior to rest of church. |
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St Andrew's south porch [6702] 1991-07-07
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St Andrew's east end armorial shields [2123]
1938-03-06
Base course of fine shields at east end of chancel.
Probably a century older than the church. |
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St Andrew's east end armorial shields [2124]
1938-03-06
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St Andrew's interior view east [1844] 1937-08-07
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St Andrew's interior view east [1845] 1937-08-07
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St Andrew's tie beam roof and N clerestory [1846]
1937-08-07
Roof early 16c. |
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St Andrew's modern font and Jacobean cover [1878]
1937-08-14
Cover 1637. |
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St Andrew's Robert Garsett mural monument [4441]
1956-05-24
Robert Garsett died 18th March 1611. |
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St Andrew's Robert Suckling mural monument [1877]
1937-08-14
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St Andrew's Sir John Suckling tomb [1876] 1937-08-14
John Suckling died 1613, and wife. |
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St Andrew St Suckling Hall [0623] 1935-08-06
Takes its name from the family into whose hands it passed
in the 16c. The oldest parts are some vaulted bays and
the Great Hall, both showing evidence of 14c work. Robert
Suckling was Mayor in 1572. |
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St Andrew St Suckling Hall N side doorway [6422]
1986-08-06
14c. |
Norwich Street Photographs
