12 Facts About Norwich Cathedral

Norwich Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Norwich, Norfolk, dedicated to the Holy and Undivided Trinity.

Norwich Cathedral was begun in 1096 and constructed out of flint and mortar and faced with a cream-coloured Caen limestone.

The bosses of Norwich Cathedral are one of the world's greatest mediaeval sculptural treasures that survived the iconoclasm of the Tudor and English Civil War periods.

Norwich Cathedral has the second largest cloisters in England, only exceeded by those at Salisbury Cathedral.

Norwich Cathedral was damaged after riots in 1272, which resulted in the city paying heavy fines levied by Henry III, king of England Rebuilding was completed in 1278 and the cathedral was re-consecrated in the presence of Edward I of England on Advent Sunday of that year.

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Norwich Cathedral has the second largest cloisters in England, only exceeded by those at Salisbury Cathedral.

Bosses of Norwich Cathedral are one of the world's greatest mediaeval sculptural treasures, and certainly a near miraculous survival of the iconoclasm from the Tudor and English Civil War periods.

The original clock at Norwich Cathedral was one of the earliest mechanical timekeepers made in Britain.

Cathedral was partially in ruins when John Cosin was at Norwich School in the early 17th century and the former bishop was an absentee figure.

Notable organists of Norwich Cathedral have included the composers Thomas Morley, Heathcote Dicken Statham, Alfred R Gaul and Arthur Henry Mann.

Norwich Cathedral's choirs are directed by the Master of the Music, Ashley Grote.

The cathedral and other churches in the diocese of Norwich were featured in the 1974 BBC documentary A Passion for Churches, presented by the English poet and writer John Betjeman.