Norwich Cathedral Norwich, England
Listed Building Data
Norwich Cathedral has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1051330
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 26 February 1954
- Name
- THE CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY
- Location
- THE CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY, THE CLOSE
- District
- Norwich
- County
- Norfolk
- Grid Reference
- TG 23476 08911
- Easting
- 623476.0000
- Northing
- 308911.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
TG 2308 NW TG 2308 NE THE CLOSE 16/170 17/170 26.2.54 The Cathedral of the Holy and Undivided Trinity - I Cathedral and Cloisters. C11 onwards. Begun in 1096 by Herbert de Losinga after the see was transferred from Thetford. Barnack and Caen stone, brick. Lead covered roofs. Nave with aisles. Choir. North transept with chapel. South transept with vestry. Presbytery with aisles and ambulatory. South, north-east and south-east chapels. East chapel. Cloisters to south. 14 bays to nave and choir. 3 bays transepts. 4 bays prebytery plus ambulatory. West front re-modelled C1830 by Salvin. Norman aisle portals. West door arch with diagonally-set niches and shallow vaulting. Large 9-light perpendicular window above door. C14 south aisle windows with cusped intersecting tracery. Norman tripartite clerestory windows with taller central window and blind arcading. Transepts with corner turrets. Shafted windows and blind arcading in 7 orders. Doorway in north transept with 2 orders of shafts. Relief sculpture above doorway of a Bishop with crozier. The south transept was restored and rebuilt by Salvin C1830. Presbytery has square-headed 4-light windows to the aisles and large 4-light C14 clerestory windows with flying buttresses between. Crossing tower with 4 orders of arcading and shafted clasping buttresses with turrets and C15 spirelets. C15. crocketed spire with lucarnes. Cloisters C11 and 1297-1430. William and John Ramsey, masons of South Range. Barnack stone, lead roofs. Eleven bays by 11 bays, 2 storey. Each bay 3-light open tracery openings, single foiled lancet above. Corners occluded by projecting buttresses. Lierne vaults to all sides. Enriched door surrounds to first and eighth bay of nave. Fine triple entrance to Chapter House, E. range, Lavatorium W. range. Upper part west wall has several circular windows circa 1050-1070. Vaulted undercrofts behind south range (song-school).
Listing NGR: TG2347608911
