. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . 76 CATHEDRAL CHURCHES. [Norwich. fabric too ixi)ensive to be cuuteinplatcd. The old charnel-house serves now asa gynuiasiuni. The chapel is used as the great school. The old endowmentsupports the more modern institution. The two gates of the close are interesting relics of mediaeval grandeur. Thatwhich stands innnediately opposite the west front was erected at the cost ofSir Thomas Erpingluim, whose name Shakespeare has immortalised. Thisgate was designed at the beginning of the fifteenth century. It w
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . 76 CATHEDRAL CHURCHES. [Norwich. fabric too ixi)ensive to be cuuteinplatcd. The old charnel-house serves now asa gynuiasiuni. The chapel is used as the great school. The old endowmentsupports the more modern institution. The two gates of the close are interesting relics of mediaeval grandeur. Thatwhich stands innnediately opposite the west front was erected at the cost ofSir Thomas Erpingluim, whose name Shakespeare has immortalised. Thisgate was designed at the beginning of the fifteenth century. It was obviouslyleft unfinished at the death of Sir Thomas in 1420, and completed by an. PULL 8 FEKRY, AT THE BOTTOM OF THE CLOSE. inferior architect several years after it had been carried up to the presentheight of the buttresses, and then for a while abandoned. There is an elaboratedescription of this gate in Harrods Gleanings among the Castles and Conventsof Norfolk. The other gate of the close to the southward is St. Ethelberts,and was built but a few years after the Erpingham Gate. It was the gift ofBishop Alnwick. The upper portion of this gate is a good specimen of inter-mixed flint and stone work, and was executed about seventy years ago. During its eight centuries of existence on the spot where it still stands upso proudly, Norwich Cathedral has had some bad half-hours. In 1272 the citi-zens, infuriated by the exactions levied upon them by the prior, besieged theclose and set the monastery on fire. The flames consumed a large portion ofthe archives of the monks and of the see, but the cathedral escaped. It was just NoinvicH.] BISHOPS AND DEANS. 77 ninety years a
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