St George Tombland, Norwich
St George Tombland, Norwich
St George Tombland is a Grade I parish church on Tombland, opposite Norwich Cathedral, in the Diocese of Norwich.
- Location
- Norwich, Norfolk
- Country
- England
- County
- Norfolk
- City / town
- Norwich
- Address
- Princes Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR31AE
- Postcode
- NR3 1AE
- Built
- C15 and C16; tower c.1445, repaired 1645; restored late C19
- Architect
- Ewan Christian (late C19 restoration)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- George
- Diocese
- Norwich
- Parish
- St George Tombland, Norwich
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Perpendicular
- Materials
- Flint with stone and brick dressings; brick clerestory; lead roofs
- Grid reference
- TG 233 088
- Opening hours
- October to March; Thursday and Saturday 10am to 12noon. April to September; Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday 10am to 12noon.
- Access
- Ramp or level access available on request. Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets in church
Overview
Historic England records a fifteenth- and sixteenth-century parish church of flint with stone and brick dressings, a brick clerestory and lead roofs: west tower, nave and chancel, north and south aisles and porches, and a north chancel chapel. The three-stage tower of about 1445, repaired in 1645, has diagonal buttresses, a statue niche, square traceried sound holes and a crenellated parapet with lozenge flushwork and corner pinnacles. The two-storey south porch has a tierceron vault with a central boss of St George.
Norfolk Heritage Explorer notes a first mention in 1248, a thirteenth-century core, and a late-nineteenth-century restoration by Ewan Christian. Wikipedia records legacies for building the tower in 1445. The interior has polygonal arcade piers, an arch-braced nave roof with Renaissance detail on the wall-plate coving, and important monuments, including one by Scheemakers.