The _Cloisters_ are extremely interesting and beautiful. We enter them by the Prior's Door, a fine Decorated work, having four columns on each side, with archivolt mouldings, in front of which are seven canopied niches, with richly-sculptured crockets, containing figures. The Norman cloisters, probably constructed of wood, were destroyed in 1272, at the time of the citizens' revolt. The east walk was rebuilt by Bishop Walpole (1289-1299) in Early Decorated style. His successor, Bishop Salmon, built the south walk, the windows of which show a great advance in the same style, the windows having flowing tracery. The west walk has also Late Decorated work, and the north walk has at the east end an Early Decorated window, at the west end two Late Decorated, while the other five are Perpendicular in their tracery. This part was finished by Bishop Alnwyck (1426-1436). The slype and chapter-house have both been destroyed. The usual plan of Benedictine monasteries was followed here. The dormitory was on the east side, the refectory on the south, with entrance at south-west corner, and near to this is the monks' lavatory, the kitchen being further west. Carved figures representing the Temptation of Adam and Eve are above this door leading to the refectory. The locutory or parlour of the monks was on the west side of the cloisters and the hospitium, and from this walk the _Monks' Door_ leads us back to the Cathedral. The bosses are extremely interesting. In the east walk the subjects are foliage, the four Evangelists, the Scourging, Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ, and Nebuchadnezzar eating grass. In the south and west, scenes from the Book of the Revelation of St. John; and in the north, legends of the saints--Christopher, Laurence (being burnt on a gridiron); the dancing of Herodias's daughter before Herod, which represents her as tumbling rather than dancing, in accordance with the usual conceptions of mediæval artists. DIMENSIONS Length of church 407 ft. Nave length 252 ft. Nave to choir-screen 204 ft. Width of nave 72 ft. Height of roof 95 ft. Height of spire (from ground) 315 ft. Height of tower 140 ft. Height of spire from tower 174 ft. Area 34,800 sq. ft. OBJECTS OF INTEREST IN NORWICH The _Castle_, of which I have already written. _Guild Hall_, parts of which were built in 1407, and contains much that is interesting--portraits of Norwich worthies, regalia, etc. _St. Andrew's Hall_, once the Church of the Dominicans, in Perpendicular style, which has passed through many vicissitudes, and has some good pictures. Norwich abounds in interesting churches-- St. John of Timberhill--Norman font, squint; parvise, principally Decorated.