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St Mary the Less, Norwich

Norwich, GB

St Mary the Less, Norwich

St Mary the Less is a Grade I listed redundant church located in Norwich, England. It is on the north side of Queen Street (formerly Red Well Street) near the street's junction with Tombland. Likely existing pre-Norman Conquest and first documented in 1155, it became redundant in 1542, though from 1

564 the Elizabethan Strangers were granted use of the building as a cloth exchange and from 1623 a place to sell worsted yarn. In 1637 it became a French Church for Walloon and French Protestants, until its sale to the Swedenborgians in 1832. It was a Catholic Apostolic Church until 1959, then a furniture warehouse until 1985. The church is now privately owned and surrounded by modern buildings. Since 2008, it has been on the Heritage at Risk Register due to its high vulnerability to decay.

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