The Walled City 3: Pockthorpe gate and city wall
Barrack Street is pretty dull these days, a humdrum piece of grey carriageway winding through crossings and traffic islands as it links the Magdalen Street flyover to the nexus; Mousehold, Plumstead, Kett’s Heights or along Riverside. It’s the epitomy of...
Maps: Norwich City Wall
Basically Norwich City Wall with all the main elements marked on, This is not 100% accurate for detail, It’s stepping off point and that is all at that stage. Building started on 1294, finished in 1350-ish, then we started to pull it down. Privately financed...
The walled city 2: Berstrete gates
Ber Street Gate or Berstrete Gate, sitting just on the edge of Foulgers opening off Ber a Street and Bracondale. Another Norwich city wall fragment, not the gate itself. The gate no longer exists, nor do any of the others, largely a result mainly of progress (or...
The walled city: part one
Norwich: The walled city I’ve been wandering around staring at flint in various forms for years. This is Norfolk after all it’s ubiquitous and unavoidable from pebble built fisherman’s cottages to our gazillion churches, dividing walls, farms, sheds...Products
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Further to those pics, for anyone who isn’t aware of William of Norwich, the chapel, blood libel and the persecution of the Jews in the 12th century in Norwich and further afield, there’s a piece on it here from a few years ago. www.invisibleworks.co.uk/hidden-history-the-forgotten-chapel/
Hidden History: The forgotten chapel | Invisible Works
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Ring-roads, go round and past. Nature of the beast I suppose, circling. Norwich is blessed with ever-increasing circles; from the old castle ditches and the fee to the city wall and the inner linkA curiosity - now confirmed to be one of four Chapel boundary markers, thanks to Stephen Jarvis.
Prior to this: Spotted this on Mousehold. It’s a piece of what looks to be limestone rather than concrete. I suspect it’s usually obscured by bracken, about 8 inches deep and wide. It’s positioned just outside the southeastern perimeter of the site of St William’s Chapel about halfway off towards the Great War light railway line. I assume it’s medieval in origin, but can’t be sure. Anyway, just one of those things.