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Pediment from Former Corn Exchange |
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County | Norfolk | District Council | Norwich City Council | |||||||||||||||||||||
Civil Parish or equivalent | Norwich | Town/Village* | Norwich | |||||||||||||||||||||
Road | Formerly 11 Exchange Street | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Precise Location | Private Collection | |||||||||||||||||||||||
OS Grid Ref | TG230087 | Postcode | NR2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Setting | Originally on building | Access | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Norwich Corn Exchange | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Design & Constrn period |
1861 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Signatures/Marks | B. BARRETT Sc | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Description (physical) |
This was the pediment over the central doorway of the Corn Exchange on Exchange Street, flanked by two further doors with smaller pediments. Two angels, the supporters of the City’s coat of arms, fill the space above the curved pediment. Their drapery is classically inspired as are their idealised heads, with head bands. In one hand they support a decorated scroll, ending in a heraldic rose, and in the other the ends of sheaves of wheat. The roundel with the sheaf of wheat is set within a cartouche, with a ropes threaded through on either side. The pediment is filled with naturalistically observed flowers, a daffodil, lily, sunflower and more roses all set against stalks of wheat and including a pomegranate. The observation of the flowers anticipates Thomas Jeckyll's Norfolk gates, at Sandringham, from slightly later in the decade. The bold design and quality of the carving, in details like the angels' toes and the fruit, is matched in Barrett’s slightly later Crown Bank pediment NFnrNOR002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Description (iconographical) |
St Andrews Hall had been used as a corn exchange before being replaced by one lower down Exchange Street in 1828. This formed part of the scheme to give the market a northern access, effective after the completion of the road in 1832 when Exchange Street was finally linked with the new Duke Street Bridge of 1822. In 1861 another larger corn exchange was built, on the site of what was to become the northern end of Jarrolds store, by T.D. Barry of Norwich and Goodwin and Butcher of London with an iron roof by Barnard, Bishop and Barnard. The cost of the building was £20,000. It was knocked down in 1964 when it was incorporated into Jarrolds store, and the pediment was removed to a garden in Hethersett. The garden was subsequently divided and sold off, when the pediment was moved to its present site in a private collection | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date taken:
12/5/2010
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On Site Inspection |
Date: 12/5/2010 |
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Sources and References |
Photographs of former Corn Exchange by George Swain, and others, reproduced by permission of Picture Norfolk see:www.picture.norfolk.gov.uk Muthesius, S. ‘Architecture since 1800’ in Rawcliffe, C. and Wilson, R. eds, Norwich since 1550, Hambledon and London, 2004, p.331; norridge.me.uk/pubs/beertalk/xchg.htm; Barrett, G.N., 'Barnabas Barrett, 1810-1883; Norwich Monumental Mason', Norfolk Archaeology, 43.3, 2000, 503-6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date entered: 12/5/2010 |
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