Eight hundred years ago, there were 56 parish churches in Norwich. Thirty-one remain standing ? the greatest concentration of medieval churches in any town or city north of the Alps. Most retain medieval furnishings and monuments, painting and glazing, and about a quarter of them are of the very highest quality in terms of materials and design. The locations of most of the lost churches are known, and archaeological examination has been undertaken at several of their sites. Together they form an internationally important corpus of historic monuments. Remarkably, no detailed account of these churches as a group has ever been published. This book not only explores each of the churches ? standing and lost ? but also examines their contribution to the development of Norwich and its community in the Middle Ages. AUTHORS: Brian Ayers is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of East Anglia and is the former Norfolk County Archaeologist. He has published extensively on Norwich and researches the archaeology of northern Europe, as seen in his book The German Ocean: Medieval Europe around the North Sea. Clare Haynes is a historian of British visual culture. She is also chair of trustees of Hungate Medieval Art, a charity based in the redundant medieval parish church of St Peter Hungate, Norwich. Sandy Heslop has published widely on English medieval art and architecture. His research interests include churches and castles, figurative imagery in all media, and the creative relationships between makers and their patrons. Helen Lunnon is a historian who specialises in the art and architecture of the English Middle Ages. Helen's interest in historic relationships between people and spaces is exemplified in her book East Anglian Church Porches and their Medieval Context.
