Showing posts with label Norwich. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Norwich. Show all posts

Tuesday 28 August 2012

John Charles Cracknell Died 27th May 1923


James Charles Cracknell
Died 27th May 1923
Saint Mark's New Lakenham, Norwich [Link]

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Charles Frederick Haag Died 17th July 1947




Charles Frederick Haag
Died 17th July 1947
Mable Ella Haag
Died 10th August 1973
Saint Mark's New Lakenham, Norwich [Link]

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Granite

Granite Pillar
Saint Mark's New Lakenham, Norwich [Link]

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Richard Scales Died 21st January 1918

Richard Scales
Died 21st January 1918
Saint Mark's New Lakenham, Norwich [Link]

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Sunday 26 August 2012

Granite Cross

Granite Cross
Saint Mark's New Lakenham, Norwich [Link]

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Saturday 25 August 2012

Minnie Beatrice Scales Died 9th September 1915

Minnie Beatrice Scales
Died 9th September 1915
Albert Edward Scales
Died 3rd November 1940
Saint Mark's New Lakenham, Norwich [Link]

© Godric Godricson

Friday 10 August 2012

Thursday 9 August 2012

Mr Thomas Paul

The Old Meeting House, Norwich - [Link]

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Edith Cavell - Modern hero and martyr


In some postings we have focused on the saints as examples of funerals and burials that have  religious connotations. We have also referenced relics as an example of the bones and tissue of the dead being a desirable object to have around the living. However, the story of Edith Cavell gives us something of a modern hero and martyr from World War One. Edith Cavell is remembered in Norwich and is buried there at the rear of the Cathedral. perhaps in years gone by we would have seen a small chapel dedicated to her somewhere in this mausoleum of a building.

The grave of Edith is now covered in scaffolding due to building works on the cathedral although you can still see the care that it receives. Modern hero and martyr.





Edith Cavell celebrated in stone - Norwich [Link]
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The grave covered in flowers and protective material - Norwich [Link]
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Wall Plaques - Saint Michael at Plea

Damaged wall Plaque Saint Michael at Plea - Norwich [Link]
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Wall Plaque Saint Michael at Plea - Norwich [Link]
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Wall Plaque Saint Michael at Plea - Norwich [Link]
© Godric Godricson

Wall Plaque Saint Michael at Plea - Norwich [Link]
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Wednesday 8 August 2012

TableTomb



Table Tomb Saint Michael at Plea - Norwich [Link]
© Godric Godricson
Detail Saint Michael at Plea - Norwich [Link]
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Iron work and dereliction

Iron work and dereliction
Saint Mark's New Lakenham, Norwich [Link]

© Godric Godricson

Monday 6 August 2012

Granite Cross

Granite Cross
Saint Mark's New Lakenham, Norwich [Link]

© Godric Godricson

Sunday 5 August 2012

Saint Peter Parmentergate - Norwich



Saint Peter Parmentergate is a Church that I have not been in and I don't know how to gain entry. This is a massive pile of a building with a graveyard that has been scraped in favour of a municipal City park. The population of this City centre area has grown back with the redevelopment of King Street although the parish has gone with the present parish being found centred on Saint John the Baptist nearby. The parkland around the Church is maintained and available and I imagine that the Church is similarly maintained unlike the poor remains of Saint Etheldreda so badly treated by the artistic community of Norwich.






A crescent inside a star - King Street, Norwich
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The scraped graveyard becomes the park
Saint Peter parmentergate - King Street, Norwich
© Godric Godricson

Ann Norris - Buried Saint Peter Parmentergate, King Street, Norwich
© Godric Godricson



Saturday 4 August 2012

Saint Julian - Norwich

The Church of Saint Julian in Norwich is a real jewel of the Anglican denomination. An Anglo-Catholic shrine to a 14th Century mystic in the heart of Norwich. Even so, the Anglicans strive to diminish what they have and to take away the gloss of the ancient and antique. When I visited the Anglicans had managed to clear away the few monuments left in this small oasis and had put in place a rather sad lawn area in the cemetery that is hidden to the rear of the small building. The lawn is a nod in the direction of the quiet City space and in some ways we should be grateful that they have this in the middle of a new and rather expensive housing development. I'm not sure that the locals take up the offer of a service at Saint Julian's although I'm sure that the local indigents do take up the offer of privacy from the prying eyes of Norwich. Saint Julian as a hospitaler saint would doubtless approve.



The beauty of Traditional Anglican worship - King Street, Norwich
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The one (rather sad) monument on the edge of the convent
Saint Julian -  King Street, Norwich
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The convent intrudes into the graveyard
Saint Julian -  King Street, Norwich
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Saint Etheldreda - Norwich


The country moves into the City- King Street, Norwich [Link]
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The country moves into the City- King Street, Norwich [Link]
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The country moves into the City- King Street, Norwich [Link]
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The Anglicans turn monuments into path edging [Link]
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Friday 3 August 2012

Iron Railings

Iron Railings
Saint Mark's New Lakenham, Norwich [Link]

© Godric Godricson

Abused Churches - Saint Etheldreda


Abused Churches - King Street, Norwich [Link]
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Abused Churches - King Street, Norwich [Link]
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Abused Churches - King Street, Norwich [Link]
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Lost Burial Grounds - King Street, Norwich [Link]
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Lost Burial Grounds - Saint Olave's. Norwich

Lost Burial Grounds - King Street, Norwich
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Lost Burial Grounds - King Street, Norwich
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Thursday 3 May 2012

Saint Peter Mancroft -Norwich

                                       
Norfolk Annals 1809




"On opening a vault at the church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, a live bat was found therein, of a greyish colour, where it had probably lain in a torpid state more than 32 years, the distance of time since the vault was before opened.”