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This is Norwich Cathedral.

I walked most of the way around. Went past the modern looking bit built on the ruins, and around to the back.

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Norwich Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral built in Norwich, Norfolk, dedicated to the Holy and Undivided Trinity.

The cathedral was started in 1096 and constructed out of flint and mortar and faced with a cream coloured Caen limestone. A Saxon settlement and two churches were demolished to make room for the buildings. The building was finished in 1145 and had the fine Norman tower, that we see today, topped with a wooden spire covered with lead. Several periods of damage caused rebuilding to the nave and spire but after many years the building was much as we see it now, from the final erection of the stone spire in 1480.

The large cloister has over 1,000 bosses including several hundred carved and ornately painted ones. The buildings are on the lowest part of the Norwich river plain and surrounded on three sides by hills and an area of scrubland, Mousehold heath, to the fourth and North direction. This means that the Cathedral could be seen from just about any location in the city.

It is also one of the Norwich 12 heritage sites.

It is Grade I listed.

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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.