gate, (it having been built
by Sir Thomas Erpingham as a penance) and is an elegant specimen of the
architecture of the time; it is much enriched with columns, mouldings,
and many small statutes in canopied niches, in one of which, over the
centre, is Sir Thomas Erpingham kneeling, and in the act of prayer.

The gate called St. Ethelbert's gate, from a church dedicated to that
saint, having formerly occupied its scite, and which appears to have been
built prior to the cathedral, was burnt down in the insurrection, in
1272; after which, the citizens were compelled to build the present
handsome gate with the chapel over it: the front facing tombland was
formerly richly ornamented, but by modern innovation and repair, it is
deprived of all its beauty. The chapel was some years since used as the
bishop's registry, but has for the last ten years been occupied as a
weekly concert room, by a society of gentlemen amateurs.

There are few churches after the cathedral which deserves particular
mention as architectural objects, their names may be found in the list of
population; however, we shall notice St. Julian's church, being founded
anterior to the conquest and for its exhibiting some specimens of Saxon
architecture.

St. Peter's Mancroft church, a handsome regular building, and after the
cathedral, superior in size and architecture to any other; it stands on
an elevated spot at the south west corner of the market place. Blomfield
states it was finished in the year 1455; it consists of a square tower,
about 100 feet high, though evidently intended to have been much higher,
as appears by the double buttresses extending to the top, and the
thickness of the walls; it contains an excellent peal of 12 bells, by
Messrs Pack and Chapman, in 1775; the tenor weighs 41cwt. they are
acknowledged for general effect, to be the first peal in the world--and
the ringers are justly ranked with the first in the kingdom.

The church is wholly covered with lead, and supported by two rows of
pillars remarkably neat and slender; the body of the church, including
the chancel, is 212 feet in length, and is 70 feet wide; on the north and
south sides are entrance porches. The altar is ornamented with a
painting, representing the deliverance of St. Peter out of prison, was
executed by Catton, and presented to the parish by Alderman Starling, in
the year 1768. Within the church are some few sepulchral monuments
worthy notice, and a fine organ b