Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal SeeQuennell, C. H. B. (Charles Henry Bourne)
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Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See
Quennell, C. H. B. (Charles Henry Bourne)
Norwich Cathedral (Norwich, England)
#Joseph Hall# (1641-56); translated from Exeter. We have quoted in the
notes on nave from his "Hard Measure."
#Edward Reynolds# (1661-76).
#Antony Sparrow# (1676-85); translated from Exeter. He was the author of
a "Rationale upon the Book of Common Prayer," 1657.
#William Lloyd #(1685-91); translated from Llandaff to Peterborough, and
from thence to Norwich. He was deposed in 1690 for refusing to take the
oath of allegiance to William III.
#John Moore# (1691-1707); translated to Ely in 1707.
#Charles Trimmell# (1708-1721); translated to Winchester in 1721.
#Thomas Green# (1721-23); translated to Ely 1723.
#John Lang# (1723-27).
#William Baker# (1727-32); translated from Bangor.
#Robert Butts# (1733-38); translated to Ely 1738.
#Sir Thomas Gooch, Bart.# (1738-48); translated from Bristol.
#Samuel Lisle# (1748-49); translated from St. Asaph.
#Thomas Hayter# (1749-61); translated to London in 1761.
#Philip Yonge# (1761-83); translated from Bristol.
#Lewis Bagot# (1783-90); translated from Bristol.
#George Horne# (1791-92).
#Charles Manners Sutton# (1792-1805); translated to Canterbury in 1805.
#Henry Bathurst# (1805-37).
#Edward Stanley# (1837-49), father of the late Dean of Westminster.
#Samuel Hinds# (1849-57).
#John Thomas Pelham# (1857-93).
#J. Sheepshanks# (1893).
[Illustration: The Pelican Lectern in the Choir.]
CHAPTER V
THE CITY
The visitor to this ancient city will by no means wish to confine his
attention to the Cathedral and its precincts; but the space at our
disposal will not permit more than a list of other monuments which are
worthy of attention. Among these the #Castle# naturally comes first.
Occupying the site of a very ancient--probably British--stronghold, the
first building was erected in early Norman times. For many years it was
the principal fortress of the Bigods, Earls of Norfolk, and under them
experienced many vicissitudes of fortune at the hands of both Flemings
and French. The last event of importance connected with it was the
hanging of Kett in 1549. The keep is in dimensions 96 x 92 feet, its
height being 72 feet (see p. 99).
The #Guildhall# contains many interesting relics of the civil life of
Norwich during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including those
of the famous Guild of S. George, established in 1385 and dissolved in
1731 (see p. 103).
#St. Andrew's Hall#, a fifteenth-century building, was formerly the nave
of the Church of the Blackfriars. It contains some good pictures of the
English School.
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