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St Clement's Church, Norwich

Norwich, GB

St Clement's Church, Norwich

St Clement Colegate, also known as St Clement Fyebridge, is a Grade I listed redundant parish church in Norwich, Norfolk in England. It is one of two churches in the city that were dedicated to Clement of Rome, the other being the now lost St Clement Conesford. Located on an 'island' site (surrounde

d by footways) on Fyebridge Street and Colegate, near to Fye Bridge, it is constructed of flint with stone and brick dressings and a slate roof, and has a wide aisleless nave, a chancel without chapels, and a west tower with a clock and crenellated parapet. It is debated as to whether St Clement's is one of the first churches erected on the north side of the river Wensum in the city, though it likely had a foundation in the Anglo-Saxon period, possibly in the early 11th century. It was given to Stoke by Clare Priory between 1090 and 1121, though after a dispute between 1173 and 1182, its advowson was instead granted to Mendham Priory. Its benefice passed to Gonville and Caius College post-Reformation. It became one of the main Ritualist churches of the city in the later 19th century. It was made redundant in the 1960s, though was host to a place of all faith prayer and meditation under the...

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