NORWICH, ST JULIAN'S CHURCH,
ISAAC'S HOUSE AND
CARROW PRIORY
r download GoogleEarth and ask it
to show you Norwich, U.K., and zoom
in until you are walking down Rouen Road and Julian's Alley to the
Music
House (Isaac's House) on King Street continuing on to where King Street
and Rouen Road join, keep going past the ruined medieval wall until you
can go no further, then turn left until you come to the Unilever
security
entrance, and there make an appointment to see what Jeremiah Coleman
called
'Carrow Abbey', really Julian's Carrow Priory, which they came to own.
My family, the Quaker Glorneys in Ireland, sold him the mustard secret
and monopoly, which they had obtained from marrying into French royalty
who were escaping the Revolution. The other Quaker branches of my
family,
in England this time, were Fry (a relative, Norwich's Elizabeth Fry)
and
Cash.
From both St Julian's Church
and from Carrow Abbey one can see how the
city is divided between Castle and Cathedral, glimpsing both imposing
structures.
See also Adam Easton's schoolboy
drawings of how to measure the height of these.
From an old engraving of St Julian's Church with its tower as it was
was before WWII bombing.
http://www.the-plunketts.freeserve.co.uk§ give fine pre- and post-war photograph albums of Norwich, in particular of St Julian's Church and Carrow Priory.
27th June, 1942: St Julian’s Church in King Street had almost
everything
excepting its north wall and porch completely annihilated by a high
explosive
bomb.
Isaac's House on King Street in Conisford is near St Julian's Church:
Continue down Rouen Road or King Street which join together. And before you get to Carrow Priory you see the ruins of Norwich's city walls. They are clearly identifiable with those in this scene from the Luttrell Psalter, which pretends it is of Constantinople:
Beyond those ruined walls walk further, seeing
a great ruined mansion and restored conservatory built by the Coleman
family.
Go to the end of that sreet, then turn left, until you come to
Unilever.
Ask at security there for an appointment to see Carrow Priory. It is as
in these photographs, the Prioress' House kept beautiful, the Priory
destroyed
by Henry VIII, but they have now built a medieval herb garden from
those
still growing here from the days of the nuns and they still market
these
herbs in oil to Holland.
Marks on the bases of the columns seem to identify the mason as the
same who was responsible for the building of the Infirmary at Norwich
Cathedral
Priory, and the Jew’s House (Isaac’s Hall or the Music House) in King
Street.
Excellent resources for
Julian's Norwich are Francis Blomefield,
An
Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk . . .
and
other Authentick Memorials (London: William Miller, 1805-10), 11
vols:
Volume IV, 1806, 81-3, 524-30, especially the manuscript volumes in the
British Library Manuscript Reading Room which are illustrated with
water
colour sketches; and Walter Rye, Carrow Abbey, Otherwise Carrow
Priory,
near Norwich, in the County of Norfolk, Its Foundations, Officers and
Inmates,
Norwich,
1889.
For Carrow Priory, see also http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=38270§,
http://monasticmatrix.usc.edu/monasticon/index.php?function=detail&id=1018§
For Chaucer's Prioress, see Michael Calabrese 'Performing the
Prioress' at
http://www.geocities.com/salferrat/chauccal.htm
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