Tom's Tour to the other Cathedral in Norwich
Tom has arranged for the members of the Society to photograph Norwich’s other Cathedral - The Cathedral Church of St. John the Baptist located on Untsnk Road adjacent to the inner ring road near to the top of Grapes Hill.
The visit is on Thursday 23rd January 2020 between 11am and 1pm.
Hopefully it will be a lovely dry day and we will get some good photo opportunities of the lovely garden and outside of the building too. The altar is not allowed to be walked on but there are plenty of areas within the cathedral with great potential for capturing some great images
St. John the Baptist Cathedral Church, Norwich.
Members who attend this Tom’s Tour are requred to make a donation of £5 each which we shall hand-over to the Cathedral
See Norwich from the Tower
If there are more than SIX (6) people interested we could also do a tower tour, were we go up to the top of the tower. This is claimed to be the highest point in Norwich. The tower tour costs an additional £5 per photographer and is only suitable for people of fairly good fitness – approx. 230 steps up a mostly winding narrow tower steps. But well worth the view of Norwich..!
After the tour why not stop for lunch in the Cathedral’s cafe…?
About the Cathedral
Norwich's Catholic Cathedral was begun, not as a cathedral at all, but as a church for Norwich's Catholic community. The date was 1882 and the patron was Henry Howard, the 15th Duke of Norfolk, head of the Norfolk Howards, one of the most powerful Catholic families in England. Howard hoped that a new church would help reinvigorate Catholicism and help make his religion a more accepted part of English life. The story goes that Howard was so delighted by his marriage in 1877 that he decided to build the church as a sign of gratitude to God.
Howard called upon architect George Gilbert Scott, a recent convert to Catholicism and one of the most prolific and successful Victorian architects. Scott was a member of a family of architects who were to dominate 19th and early 20th-century ecclesiastical architecture in England. It was not a surprising choice, but it was a choice that had unexpected consequences, for only two years later Scott suffered a complete mental breakdown and was certified insane. Keeping things in the family, Scott's work was carried to completion by his brother John Oldrid Scott, and work finished in 1910.
The result of Scott's design is a magnificent structure, emulating 13th century Early English Gothic, considered by many Victorians to be the most 'pure' and 'English' style.