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Manual Ref*
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NFnrNOR047
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114
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Title*
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Haymarket Chambers
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County
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Norfolk
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District Council
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Norwich City Council
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Civil Parish or equivalent
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Norwich City Council
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Town/Village*
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Norwich
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Road
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Haymarket
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Precise Location
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No. 11
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OS Grid Ref
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TG230083
Where on earth?
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Postcode
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NR2
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Previous location(s)
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Setting
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On Building
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Sub Type (Access)
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Public
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| Artist/Maker |
Role |
Qualifier |
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G.J. Skipper
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Architect(s)
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Commissioned by |
First occupants were J.H.Roofe grocers, the Norwich Stock Exchange |
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Design & Constrn period |
1902 |
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Date of installing |
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Exact date of unveiling |
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Category |
Abstract
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Animal
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Architectural
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Commercial
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Commemorative
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Composite
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Free
Standing |
Functional
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Funerary
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Heraldic
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Military
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Natural
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Non
Commemorative |
Performance
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Portable
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Religious
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Roadside,
Wayside |
Sculptural
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Temporary,
Mobile |
Other |
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Object Type |
Building
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Clock
Tower |
Architectural
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Coat
of Arms |
Cross
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Fountain
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Landscape
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Marker
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Medallion
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Mural
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Panel
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Readymade
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Relief
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Shaft
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Sculpture
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Statue
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Street
Furniture |
War
Memorial |
Other |
Object Sub Type |
Architectural ornament |
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Subject Type |
Allegorical
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Mythological
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Pictorial
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Figurative
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Non-figurative
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Portrait
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Still-life
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Symbolic
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Other |
Subject Sub Type |
Bust
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Equestrian
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Full-length
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Group
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Head
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Reclining
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Seated
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Standing
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Torso
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| Part |
Material |
Dimension |
| Curved pediments |
Terracotta |
H. 75 cms W 450 cms |
| Diamond shapes with sailing boats |
Painted brick |
H&W 50 by 50 cms |
| Lamb Inn |
Painted brick |
H. 50 cms W. 140 cms |
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Work is |
Extant
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Owner/Custodian |
Pret a Manger |
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Listing status |
Not Listed
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Surface Condition |
Corrosion,
Deterioration |
Accretions
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Bird
Guano |
Abrasions,
cracks, splits |
Biological
growth |
Spalling,
crumbling |
Metallic
staining |
Previous
treatments |
Other |
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Detail |
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Structural Condition |
Armature
exposed |
Broken
or missing parts |
Replaced
parts |
Loose
elements |
Cracks,
splits, breaks, holes |
Spalling,
crumbling |
Water
collection |
Other |
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Detail |
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Vandalism |
Graffiti
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Structural
damage |
Surface
Damage |
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Detail |
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Overall condition |
Good
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Risk
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No Known Risk
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| Signatures/Marks |
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| Inscriptions |
The building is dated 1902 Above doorway to right notice of alleyway: Lamb Inn |
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Description (physical) |
This is one of Skipper’s finest building, built as a shop on the ground floor with commercial chambers above. The façade curves slightly to follow the line of the road with towers in red brick with yellow banding at either end. The towers are decorated with diamond lozenges of sailing ships in full sail. The red, offset by yellow banding, is continued on the first floor where three ornamental windows with broken pediments frame semi-circular rusticated pediments with enlarged keystones and terracotta panels set around the circular windows, with thin ‘grotesque’ creatures with fierce heads curl over the base of the pediment, their backs to the curved windows, as they frame palm trees.
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Description (iconographical) |
The grotesque animals are leafy variations on the griffin headed arabesques which flank the heraldry on the doorway of Blickling Hall. Here the palm trees could allude both to the range of produce available from Roofe's the grocers and to the possibilities open to the investors in the Stock exchange sited above the shop. The ships in full sail are a long established emblem of good fortune -again appropriate for the investors on the local stock exchange. |
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Photographs
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Date taken:
5/3/2006
Date logged:
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Photographed by:
Sarah Cocke
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On Site Inspection
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Date:
5/3/2006
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Inspected by:
Richard Cocke |
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Sources and References |
Kelly’s, Directory of Norfolk, London, 1904, p. 310; Jolley David, Introduction to Architect Exuberant George Skipper 1856-1948, Exhibition at the Norwich School of Art. November-December 1975, 17; Knights, Anthony, George, John Skipper 1856-1948. Architectural Chameleon, M.A dissertation U.E.A, 1999, 46 and 92 |
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Database |
Date entered:
26/7/2006
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Data inputter:
Richard Cocke |
