Complete List of Norwich City Parishes, Chapels and District Churches

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NORWICH, a city and county of itself, locally in the hundred of Humbleyard, E. division of Norfolk, of which it is the capital, 108 miles (N. E. by N.) from London; containing 62,344 inhabitants. This ancient city rose from the ruins of the Venta Icenorum of the Romans, so named from the river Wentsum or Wensum, and the site of which is now occupied by the village of Caistor, a little to the south. By the Britons, in allusion to that circumstance, it was called Caer Gwent; and by the Saxons, in reference to its situation with respect to the Roman station, Northwic, or the northern castle, of which its present name is an evident contraction.

The following is a complete list of Norwich City parishes, chapels and district churches which lay within the boundary of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Norwich:


 * All Saints, Norwich
 * All Saints-in-Fyebridge, Norwich - closed before 1600
 * Cathedral of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Norwich - 1697
 * Episcopal Chapel, Union Place ( Rehoboth), Norwich - 1823; closed in 1873
 * Parochial Chapel of St Barbara, Guildhall, Norwich - 1535; closed by 1900; poss. before 17th C.
 * Trowse Millgate Parochial Chapel - 1695 - see St Andrew Trowse Newton below
 * St Andrew, Norwich - 1538
 * St Andrew, Thorpe next Norwich or Episcopi - 1642
 * St Andrew, Trowse Newton - by 1698- search online at FreeReg.org.uk
 * St Augustine, Norwich - 1558
 * St Bartholomew-in-Ber-Street, Norwich-closed by 1549
 * St Benedict, Norwich - 1562
 * St Botolph, Norwich - ~1686
 * St Catherine's Chapel on Mousehold, Norwich - 1550; closed by 1900
 * St Catherine-in-Newgate or Winewaloy, Norwich - closed before 1600
 * St Christopher, Norwich - 1550; closed by 1900; see also St Michael at Plea and St Andrew
 * St Clement, Norwich - 1538
 * St Clement-in-Conisford, Norwich - founded before 1400, it fell into disuse by 1482
 * St Crowches, Norwich - 1550; closed by 1900
 * St Cuthbert, with St Mary the Less were united to St George Tombland, which see
 * St Edmund the King, Norwich - 1558
 * St Edward, Norwich - 1550; closed by 1738 - see also St Etheldreda
 * St Etheldreda, Norwich - 1668 - see also St Peter Southgate
 * St Faith or St Vedast, Norwich- 1550; closed by 1900
 * St Francis (part monastic-Greyfriars), Norwich- 1538; closed by 1900
 * St George Colegate - 1538
 * St George Tombland - 1538
 * St Giles, Norwich - 1538
 * St Gregory, Norwich - 1571
 * St Helen, Norwich - 1617
 * St James Norwich- 1556
 * St James Carrow, Norwich - 1550; closed by 1900
 * St John Baptist, Norwich - closed by 1300
 * St John Maddermarket, Norwich - 1558
 * St John de Sepulchre, Norwich - 1632
 * St John in Southgate, Norwich 1550; closed by 1900
 * St John the Baptist-in-Colegate, Norwich - closed before 1300
 * St John Timberhill - 1559
 * St Julian, Norwich - 1589
 * St Lawrence, Norwich - 1558
 * St Leonard, Thorpe Hamlet - closed before 1530
 * St Luke, Catton New - 1915
 * St Luke-Cathedral Chapel, Norwich - by ~1538
 * St Margaret de Westwick, Norwich - 1559
 * St Margaret-at-Newbridge, Norwich - 1550; closed by 1900
 * St Margaret-in-Fyebridge, Norwich
 * St Martin at Oak, Norwich - 1560
 * St Martin at Palace, Norwich - 1538
 * St Martin-in-Balliva, Norwich for Castle - closed in 1562
 * St Mary Unbrent, Norwich- closed before 1550
 * St Mary at Coslany, Norwich - 1557
 * St Mary the Less, with St Cuthbert were united to St George Tombland, Norwich, which see
 * St Mary-in-the-Marsh, Norwich - 1558
 * St Mary-the-Virgin-in-Conisford, Norwich - 1550; closed by 1900
 * St Matthew the Apostle, Norwich - closed by 1286; see St Peter Permountergate
 * St Matthew, Thorpe next Norwich (Hamlet) below
 * St Matthew-at-Palace, Norwich - closed by 1350
 * St Michael at Conisford, Norwich - 1300; closed in 1360
 * St Michael at Coslany, Norwich - 1558
 * St Michael at Plea, Norwich - 1538- see also St Andrew Norwich
 * St Michael at Thorn, Norwich - 1608; mostly from 1672
 * St Michael's Tombland, Norwich - was "removed" by about the year 1200
 * St Nicholas' Chapel, (Bracondale) Norwich - 1550; closed by 1900 - see St Margaret Norwich
 * St Olave or St Tooley, Norwich - ~1500; closed 1546
 * St Olave's Chapel, Norwich - closed in 1345
 * St Paul, Norwich - 1614
 * St Peter Hungate, Norwich - 1591
 * St Peter Mancroft, Norwich - 1538
 * St Peter Parmentergate-Per Mountergate, Norwich - 1538
 * St Peter Southgate, Norwich - 1559 - see also St Ethelreda
 * St Saviour, Norwich - 1555
 * St Simon and St Jude - 1539
 * St Stephen, Norwich - 1538
 * St Swithin, Norwich - 1700 - see also St Margaret Norwich
 * Bracondale, St Nicholas -   - see also St Margaret Norwich
 * Earlham St Mary - 1622
 * Eaton Christ Church - 1876
 * Eaton St Andrew - 1568
 * Heigham Holy Trinity - 1861
 * Heigham St Barnabas
 * Heigham St. Bartholomew - 1538
 * Heigham St Philip
 * Heigham St Thomas
 * Hellesdon St Mary - ~1750
 * Keswick All Saints, near Norwich - 1557
 * Lakenham St Alban
 * Lakenham, St John the Baptist and All Saints - 1568
 * Lakenham St Mark's District Parish
 * Pockthorpe St Mary Magdalen, Norwich
 * Pockthorpe St James, Norwich - 1556
 * Sprowston St Cuthbert - 1886
 * Sprowston St Mary - 1673; but mostly from 1721
 * Thorpe-next-Norwich St Matthew - 1851

From: Samuel A. Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 446-461. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51187 Date accessed: 05 September 2011.