Norwich Cathedral

Norwich Cathedral's Bishop's Palace, with a doorway dating from about 1430, and St John's Chapel (1322) are now part of Norwich School. Formerly named King Edward VI School, it was founded as a monastery school in 1240 and numbers Lord Nelson and the landscape gardener Humphrey Repton among its past pupils.

The Monk's Door and the Prior's Door lead through to the two-story cloister, built between 1297 and 1425. Its passageways are full of embellishments in a range of styles from Decorated to Perpendicular and contain more than 400 superb bosses.

The interior of Norwich cathedral has an nave with fourteen bays, mainly in the early Norman style, with low massive columns. The windows are Decorated and Perpendicular; the glass is mainly 19th century. Particularly notable is the fine lierne vaulting, with 326 bosses (out of a total of over 800 in the whole church). The aisles are also Norman. Two bays of the south aisle were converted into chantry chapels by Bishop Nyx or Nykke (bishop 1501-35). The transepts resemble the nave, with beautiful 16th century vaulting. The choir was rebuilt in the Perpendicular style, but the original apse was preserved. The 62 choir-stalls, with splendid canopies and beautifully carved misericords. date from 1420 to 1480. In the aisles there are a number of tombs, including that of Bishop James Goldwell (1472-99). Behind the high altar is the old stone bishop's throne dating from the sixth or eighth century (restored 1959).