Inside the cathedral

The Castle which looks after Norwich

The Catholic Cathedral

Walk by the lake

One of the 17 Medieval Churches of Norwich

Walking by the cathedral

Streets of Norwich

Mortal Sin

Mortal sin may condemn a person to Hell after death, so you'd rather ask for forgiveness.

Despenser Retable

If you visit the chapels of the Norman cathedral in Norwich, you can be really suprised by the remarkable paintings your can see there from the 14th and 15th century. One of the most famous ones is this one, titled the Despenser Retable. It survived to the destrution of the Reformists disguised as a table. In the 19th century, someone happened to look under the table, so the painting was discovered.

The most impressive characteristic of this retable, which is named after Despenser, a bishop born in th 13th century, is its vivid red colour. Later on, in the 18th century, that colour made city dyers famous all over the world due to their use of that red in the production of shawls.

Inside the window

Working hard

From left to right: Jo, Maite y María.

From left to right: Deborah, Mary Paz, Charo y Ana al fondo

The classroom

Mr Colman's body double

Or was he Eduardo Punset's?
Anyway, a great guy.

Briton's Arms

The city suffered a big fire in the 19th century. Only a few houses survived and this was one of them. This particular house is also a good example of the use of wire nets invented by Charles Barnad, here in Norwich, in 1844. From Norwich, wire netting expanded all over the world. Among many other uses, wire nets are used for preventing birds from stealing pieces of straw, reeds or any other dried vegetation the roof is made of. "Can you imagine a world without wire netting?" asked the guide who showed us the city.

Nowadys, Briton's Arms is a cosy and unexpensive restaurant.

Dinner Time at Norman Foster's Restaurant

From left to right: Charo, Nuria, Marta, Ana, Lidia y Amparo (well, Ámparo), after a nice walk by the lake.

The Market

The Norman cathedral at dusk

One of the most prominent landmarks in Norwich is, of course, the Norman cathedral, which has the second highest spire in the country, only smaller than that of Salisbury Cathedral.

The foundations of the cathedral were laid in 1096, but it wasn't finished until 200 years after because, as with the castle, limestone was used to face it.

The Norman cathedral, just before dusk

Norwich Castle

When the Normans arrived in England in 1066, Norwich was an important trade centre and one of the largest towns in the country.

At that time, Tombland was -and still is- the main street of the city because, apart from housing the market, it was the place where the city administrators lived.

The Normans built a timber castle on a hill and, near by, they stablished a new market place, churches and houses. In 1096 they also began to build the cathedral. Those two buildings, the castle and the cathedral, are the only ones made of stone (brought by ship from France) and not of flint as, soon after the cathedral was started, the timber of the castle was replaced by stone.

Henry II in 1158 and, later on, Richard the Lionheart in 1194 gave the city a royal character.