Norfolk Churches Trust

The Norfolk Churches Trust exists in order to protect through financial aid and advice the many architecturally precious religious monuments of the county.

[English Cathedrals @engcathedrals]

Norwich Cathedral will today (Tuesday 10 September) host a special conference to celebrate Norfolk as it becomes the first UK member of an ancient international pilgrimage route celebrating St Olav, the first Christian King and Patron Saint of Norway.

St Olav Ways connects #Norway, #Sweden, #Finland, #Denmark and #Estonia - and now the #UK will be joining the network thanks to an initiative involving @Nrw_Cathedral, @NorfolkCC and the National Pilgrimage Centre in Norway.

Read more on the link below

https://t.co/m9wLDBPwRv

#NorwichCathedral #StOlav #StOlavWays #Pilgrimage

[English Cathedrals @engcathedrals]

Only four more doors to go and this is a BEAUTY

🚪Cathedral Doors🚪

The West Porch and Doorway to @StAlbansCath.

The west front of the cathedral was rebuilt by Edmund Beckett, Lord Grimthorpe, in 1880.

He carefully preserved the old monastery doors, which can still be seen inside the building.

Over a century later, in 1988, this grand and formal entranceway was completed with Sally Scott’s engraved glass of the Virgin and Child.

See all the doors 👇

https://t.co/CwvUijX67a

#CathedralDoors #DiscoverCathedrals #ADoorADay #StAlbansCathedral #HistoricArchitecture #GothicDesign #HeritageBuildings #ArchitecturalBeauty #CathedralHistory

[English Cathedrals @engcathedrals]

Happy New Year folks.

🚪Cathedral Doors🚪

The Prior’s Door (ca. 1300) at @Nrw_Cathedral leads from the northeast corner of the Cloister into the South Aisle of the Nave and would have been the primary entrance into the Cathedral of the monastic community.

The elegant but vigorous figures show Christ in Judgement displaying the five wounds of his Passion and flanked by three pairs of figures: two angels bearing instruments of his Passion; to the left, St Peter wearing the papal tiara and pallium and holding the remnant of a key and the Church, and to the right St Edmund, King and Martyr, the chief saint of East Anglia; to the left, St John the Baptist wearing his camel’s-hair coat and to the right Moses, with horns and carrying the Tables of the Law.

See all the doors 👇

https://t.co/CwvUijX67a

#CathedralDoors #DiscoverCathedrals #ADoorADay #NorwichCathedral #HistoricArchitecture #ArtHistory #MedievalArt #ReligiousArt

[English Cathedrals @engcathedrals]

🚪Cathedral Doors🚪

❗CAT FLAP ALERT ❗

“Paid ye carpenters 8d for cutting ye hole in ye north transept door for ye Bishop’s cat.”

Read the FULL story of @ExeterCathedral's 400yr old 'cat hole' below 👇

https://t.co/s7RTTWmAlJ

#CathedralDoors #DiscoverCathedrals #ADoorADay

[English Cathedrals @engcathedrals]

❗ OLDEST DOOR ALERT ❗

🚪Cathedral Doors🚪

The oldest door in Britain is in @wabbey's Chapter House.

The wood for the door was cut down around 1032 AD, which was then built in the 1050s.

Read more 👇

https://t.co/s7RTTWmAlJ

#CathedralDoors #DiscoverCathedrals #ADoorADay

[English Cathedrals @engcathedrals]

🚪Cathedral Doors🚪

Our first door is the North Porch at @LeicsCathedral & detail from inside.

Now open again after 2 years of work on the Leicester Cathedral Revealed project

Admire all the doors 👇

https://t.co/s7RTTWmAlJ

#CathedralDoors #DiscoverCathedrals #ADoorADay

[Norfolk Churches Trust @SaveOurChurches]

@Support Can you help? Get this error message for the last month or more when trying to change the email address on our account.
Thanks folks, NCT

[Norfolk Churches Trust @SaveOurChurches]

The #WivetonWander

Stroll through Open Gardens in #Wiveton, this Saturday 10th June.

Explore the fabulous gardens PLUS there is a #Pimms tent, teas, delicious cakes and plant sales.

All proceeds to Wiveton Church Restoration Fund

@Bedfords1966

https://t.co/oO7bKO3aUf

[Norfolk Churches Trust @SaveOurChurches]

What!?!

Norfolk churches could be recommended for closure in report

https://t.co/bNtSLJ6nwm

[Norfolk Churches Trust @SaveOurChurches]

It’s going to be good 🎶

[English Cathedrals @engcathedrals]

Music for the #Coronation announced.

It "reflects the cultural breadth of the age in which we live” plus a "cry from the deep soul of the hills & valleys of #Wales"

The first Welsh work performed at a Coronation.

Another first, a gospel choir!

https://t.co/3QpfsYd7v4

[English Cathedrals @engcathedrals]

Ring for the King

What to ring and when to ring has been announced by the @ccringing

#Coronation2023 #RingfortheKing

https://t.co/slBu9fr17k

[Norfolk Churches Trust @SaveOurChurches]

This is THE question.

"... are we really prepared to see our treasury of churches crumble and rot?"

Please share.

https://t.co/iMeETMGfD4

[Norfolk Churches Trust @SaveOurChurches]

Help needed. Where is this?

Michael Jickells is trying to track down this white altar moved from Derbyshire to Norfolk around the 1950’s.

Any clues?

Just comment on here.

Thanks folks.

[Norfolk Churches Trust @SaveOurChurches]

Today - Help raise funds for the trust by coming along to our very special book sale.

Martineau Hall, Norwich NR3 1BN

The books, which cover all aspects of churches come from the collection from the former Centre for Parish Church Studies

More 👇
https://t.co/xqNOY4wtVv

[Norfolk Churches Trust @SaveOurChurches]

Help raise funds for the trust by coming along to our book sale this Saturday 8th April.

Martineau Hall, Norwich NR3 1BN

The books, which cover all aspects of churches come from the collection from the former Centre for Parish Church Studies

More 👇
https://t.co/xqNOY4wtVv

[Norfolk Churches Trust @SaveOurChurches]

Great. And @Nrw_Cathedral has three eggs.
@Hawkandowluk

[English Cathedrals @engcathedrals]

This looks like a caption competition to me!

What do you think?

P.S. 🦅 The live peregrine webcam at @StAlbansCath is now LIVE and eggs are expected soon 🦅

Tune in 👇

https://t.co/H71UXQLGny

[Norfolk Churches Trust @SaveOurChurches]

#BatsInChurches

‘On a Wing and a Prayer’, Art installation and Soundscape. A new touring artwork celebrating bats in churches.

St Margaret’s Church, Saxlingham, 20 April - 17 May 2023

Find out more on the link.

https://t.co/vBB7OyRwUB

[Norfolk Churches Trust @SaveOurChurches]

Buy a book

Save a Church

We're holding a book sale to raise funds for the #NorfolkChurches Trust.

Covering all aspects of churches – history, architecture, archæology, heraldry, liturgy …

Saturday 8 April, 10:30-15:00

More info on the link below

https://t.co/xqNOY4wtVv

[Norwich Cathedral @Nrw_Cathedral]

Saturday 1st April, J.S. Bach 'St Matthew Passion'

Norwich Cathedral Choir and Norwich Baroque are joined by a cast of internationally acclaimed soloists to perform Bach’s monumental setting of the Passion according to St Matthew.

Tickets on the link

https://t.co/vwPO8oi85g

[Norfolk Churches Trust @SaveOurChurches]

7 abandoned churches, 7 secrets.

Across #Norfolk, there are ruins of long-abandoned churches which hold secrets of forgotten communities.

From the EDP

https://t.co/RE63cxpvpu