The Cathedral Tour: Norwich

The Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity
The third of four Cathedrals in England with this name!
A beautiful day for this visit and a warm welcome.



The labyrinth, laid down in 2002 for the Queen's Golden Jubilee
 

I was a little early for Evensong,
so first took off my shoes
and walked the labyrinth
in the cloister
while listening to the calls
of the peregrine falcons
nesting on the spire.

 

 

 Off to the refectory, which was excellent (and even served teapigs tea, which gives it several stars in my book!), and then time to wander in the Cathedral itself. I liked the welcome notice form the Benedictine rule, 'Let all guests be welcomed as if they were Christ.'

The font is really fascinating, originally a vessel used for making chocolate in a local factory and then finding a new purpose when the factory closed....


I paused at the memorial to Osberto Parsley, a 'singing man' of the Cathedral for fifty years, across four reigns (Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth I) surviving the many religious and political changes of that time.

Evensong was well attended and well-sung. Parsley would have been pleased.

I completely missed two remarkable women, Julian of Norwich (who has a window and a statue here), and Edith Cavell (who was buried in the east end of the Cathedral). I need to open my eyes more!