The Bishop’s Palace stands on the north side of the cathedral, was erected in the year 1318, and was enlarged and ornamented by several successive Bishops; it suffered greatly in the rebellion, and it was with some difficulty made habitable; it has been improving ever since, and is now made a tolerable neat and convenient residence. On the south side of the cathedral, formerly stood a priory, occuping part of the space, now called the Lower Close, and which was built as a residence for 60 monks, who officiated in the cathedral. In the year 1804, on pulling down the workhouse, which stood at the entrance of the deanery, some curious ruins were discovered, and the shafts of three massive pillars are still left standing, as specimens of the architecture of the age in which they were built. At the west end stands the free school, formerly the charnel-house—was built about the year 1316; the upper part was appropriated for the residence of four officiating priests, the part beneath was a vault used as a charnel house, which is now rendered into cellars, and part of the building occupied by the master of the school. The present portico is much more modern than the other parts of the building. Adjoining the free-school, stands Erpingham’s gate, (it having been built by Sir Thomas Erpingham as a penance) and is an elegant specimen of the architecture of the time; it is much enriched with columns, mouldings, and many small statutes in canopied niches, in one of which, over the centre, is Sir Thomas Erpingham kneeling, and in the act of prayer. The gate called St. Ethelbert’s gate, from a church dedicated to that saint, having formerly occupied its scite, and which appears to have been built prior to the cathedral, was burnt down in the insurrection, in 1272; after which, the citizens were compelled to build the present handsome gate with the chapel over it: the front facing tombland was formerly richly ornamented, but by modern innovation and repair, it is deprived of all its beauty. The chapel was some years since used as the bishop’s registry, but has for the last ten years been occupied as a weekly concert room, by a society of gentlemen amateurs. There are few churches after the cathedral which deserves particular mention as architectural objects, their names may be found in the list of population; however, we shall notice St. Julian’s church, being founded anterior to the conquest and for its exhibiting some specimens of Saxon architecture.