Items in Norfolk

Antique Map of Norfolk

Antique Map of Norfolk

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Norfolk; England

Added: 2008-10-09

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Overview map of Norfolk, England

Taken from the map of England and Wales on page 2237.

Keywords: colour, maps

Places shown: Norfolk; England

Added: 2006-01-20

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1313.—Font in East Dereham Church, Norfolk

Today it’s called East Dereham. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas, and dates from the Norman period (11th or early 12th Century). The Seven Sacrament Font shown here was made in 1488. The eigh [...]

Keywords: fonts, churches, sculpture

Places shown: East Dereham; Norfolk; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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399.—Norwich Castle

“[...] Hugh Bigod, who had sworn that Henry had appointed Stephen his successor, was the first to hold out against the king in the Castle of Norwich, which his ancestor had built. Norwich was a regul [...]

Keywords: castles, people, trees, arches

Places shown: Norwich; Norfolk; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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2105.—East Basham, Norfolk

Near Walsingham. “It is a curious and instructive contrast to compare with Herstmonceaux – a true Castle, but in which the domestic mansion was beginning to show itself – with East Basham Hall in Nor [...]

Keywords: manors, ruins, entrances, windows

Places shown: Walsingham; Norfolk; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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703.—Walsingham Abbey, Norfolk.

The village of Walsingham is alive and well; the Abbey itself was destroyed in 1538 during the English Reformation.

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, arches

Places shown: WalsingamAbbey; Norfolk; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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398.—Norwich Castle

Vol I, p.398, figs 308 and 389: Norwich Castle

Keywords: castles

Places shown: Norwich; Norfolk; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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Plate XXV. The Cloisters, Norwich Cathedral

Cloisters; a man leads a dog through them, presumably to give a sense of scale. The arches of the vaulted ceiling aer prominent. On the left there is a graveyard.

Keywords: churches, gothic, gravestones, churchyards, arches, windows, cathedrals

Places shown: Norwich; Norfolk; England

Added: 2004-05-04

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Ely Cathedral

Ely Cathedral once stood on an island in the marshes; you can still see it for miles around in any direction. It’s old, very old, and in the days before electric light even the great octagonal tower m [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, churches, interiors, people

Places shown: Ely; Norfolk; England

Added: 2005-07-16

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Ely Cathedral

“The first mention of a religious foundation at Ely occurs shortly after the introduction of Christianity into Britain, and especially into that part of the island called East Anglia, where Ethelbert, [...]

Keywords: churches, abbeys, people, horses, trees, towers, christmas

Places shown: Ely; Norfolk; England

Added: 2005-04-07

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