Hidden Secrets Of Norwich Cathedral

[@walkingthewyrd]

Hi Alex! I'm really enjoying your channel, and I'm currently catching up on all your fantastic content! Keep up the great work!

[@monicacall7532]

I just discovered your channel and am enjoying it greatly. I love history, especially English history, so your videos are especially interesting to me. Thanks.🙏

[@elizabethnash7491]

HFascinating and beautifully presented ~ many thanks!

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

Thank you :)

[@ODDwayne1]

Wonderful job Alex. It is a wonderland....so many shapes and odd details. You show it very well. 👍💯

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

Thank you! Much appreciated:)

[@chronicbob]

I walk by this place all the time. but i haven't been in for years, i should go check it out again one day.

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

Well I think this is a sign to take another look round haha. I highly recommend the paintings in the Jesus Chapel, they are gorgeous

[@finolaomurchu8217]

It's an absolutely beautiful building. I bet you'll find something interesting that you may have forgotten.

[@chronicbob]

@ I think I will next time I hear into the city to get some bits.

[@richardhinton3801]

Only just seen this Alex. Thought I knew all there was to know about Norwich Cathedral. How wrong I was. Great video, as always. A beautiful building.

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

I've been visiting here since I was a child and I continue to notice new bits and pieces every time I walk around the cathedral! Hope you get to see these for yourself next time you visit.

[@orlando1a1]

Another fascinating and insightful video - Norwich cathedral is a beautiful building and truly unique. Thank you, Alex.

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

My pleasure, and yes it certainly is beautiful & unique

[@anglo_saxon_wanderer_74]

​@AlexTheHistoryGuy Hi Alex, I was so happy when you included Erpingham's tomb. My favourite spot in the cathedral. Another great video, thanks for sharing

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

Thank you :) yes I need to go to the Shrewsbury medieval festival next year to get late 14th century / early 15th century clips if I want to make a video about Agincourt or Thomas Erpingham. The event isn't until next summer so I'll have to wait!

[@robnewman6101]

Very Interesting.

[@AScottishOdyssey]

I think that you would find Dunfermline Abbey really interesting. They have a couple of pillars there, which reminded me of a couple of carved pillars in Durham Cathedral. Dunfermline Abbey is also where Robert the Bruce was buried.

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

I've had Dunfermline on my radar for a while. Unfortunately Scotland is difficult for me to get to as I live in Norfolk. I have been to various Scottish places like Melrose, Kelso, Hermitage, Edinburgh etc but that was a few years ago and before I began recording all the places I visit for making videos. I shall have to return!

[@AScottishOdyssey]

@@AlexTheHistoryGuy Hopefully, one day, you will find your way back north of the border. I can totally understand where you're coming from. There are parts of Scotland that I'm struggling to get to, and I live here. The joys of being stuck in a badly paid day job.

[@AlisonClements]

I love Norwich Cathedral. Thanks for your informative video. Very inspiring. When I visited on Saturday I noticed how many pagan green men were on the ceiling of the cloisters

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

Yes there are tonnes of Green Man / Wild Man depictions throughout the cathedral. I believe there are 3 local 'Green Man's tales in East Anglia.

[@robnewman6101]

Wow.

[@jasonhas7456]

5:40 you said pipes were installed in the floors. What type of pipe? Water or Sewage?

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

I'm not sure but if I remember correctly it was water pipes.

[@jasonhas7456]

@@AlexTheHistoryGuy Thank you.

[@judyrudd5089]

I think you will find Blackfriars hall and St Andrews hall were built at separate times the first St Andrews being almost destroyed by fire in 1413. Then Blackfriars hall was built in 1440 a combination of old and newer buildings which we know today.

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

I agree that the monastery has had multiple stages of repair and adaptions over time but Blackfriars is only ever a nickname. It refers to the Dominican monks who wore black and hosted Friaries. The actual monastery was dedicated to Saint Andrew which is a very popular saint in East Anglia due to the Saint apparently protecting sailors by calming the waves.

[@danielking2576]

The tomb cover on the wall is actually a depiction of Han Solo frozen in carbonite from back in the day

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

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[@danielking2576]

@ a rare find indeed. Great video all joking aside

[@tomlindsay4629]

I'd lose myself in a cathedral like that, quite literally. The police would probably find me hours after closing time, up under the roof drinking in the construction details.😂

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

There's certainly a lot to see!

[@Darryl_Francis]

Why don't you pronounce the T in Protestant? It's really grating now that I've noticed 😂

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

Norfolk accent, we don't usually pronounce the T if it's in the middle of the word.

[@Darryl_Francis]

​@@AlexTheHistoryGuy Ah of course, we don't strictly speak the Queen's English where I'm from either.

[@raythirkettle4155]

Regional accent old chap…this should be celebrated..not derided.

[@Darryl_Francis]

@@raythirkettle4155 who put 20p in you?

[@LottaNoise]

Protestants and Catholics fell out over display? Nothing to do with theology like transubstantiation then?

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

Dunno, I just said that artistic depictions and ornaments were one of the reasons