Memorials and blue plaques in Norwich
Blue plaques, memorials and monuments across Norwich. A quiet place to read about the lives held in this England city, and to visit them in person.
225 locations, organised A to Z. Includes 2 war memorials.
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A

Adrian Parmenter
Timberhill

Ald. Jonathan Davey
14 Davey Place

All Saints Green
All Saints Green

Amelia Opie
Between St Georges and Water Lane, Colegate

Amelia Opie
Castle Meadow / Opie Street

Anglia Television Studios
Agricultural Hall Plain

Anthony de Solempne
Dove Street

Antoinette Hannent
Ber Street

Augustine Steward
?

Augustine Steward
Augustine Steward House, Tombland

Augustine Steward
The Strangers' Club, 22-24 Elm Hill
B

Baptist Particular Chapel
Timberhill

Bedford Street, Norwich
Bedford Street

Bell Hotel, Norwich
The Bell Hotel - Red Lion Street

Bell Hotel, Norwich
Bell Hotel, Red Lion Street

Black plaque № 12795
Lobster Lane

Black plaque № 29990
All Saints Green

Black plaque № 8082
Colman Infant School, Colman Road

Blue plaque № 3984
Expresso, St George's Street

Blue plaque № 4042
Westwick Street

Blue plaque № 4218
Pottergate

Blue plaque № 5488
21-15 Fishergate

Bridewell Alley, Norwich
Bridewell Alley

Britons Arms
Britons Arms, 9 Elm Hill

Bronze plaque № 12542
Back of the Inns

Bronze plaque № 29955
Boundary Road

Bronze plaque № 30012
?

Bronze plaque № 30013
?

Bronze plaque № 8195
20 Westlegate

Brown plaque № 3812
2-4 St Andrews Hill

Brown plaque № 3912
Barrack Street

Brown plaque № 3940
Norwich

Brown plaque № 8085
King Street

Brown plaque № 8100
Lion and Castle Yard, Timberhill

Brown plaque № 8101
31-33 Church Lane, Eaton

Brown plaque № 8103
Stonemasons Court, 53-57 St Augustines Street

Brown plaque № 8104
98-108 Oak Street

Brown plaque № 8105
80-82 St Georges Street

Brown plaque № 8106
1-9 Muspole Street
C

Castle Meadow
Castle Meadow (near the Castle Mall)

Cattle Market Street
Cattle Market Street

Cavalry Barracks
Corner of Barrack Street and Gurney Road

Church of Saint Swithin
St Benedicts Street

Church of St John the Baptist
Front wall of Octagon Chapel, Colegate

City of Norwich Gaol
On gate pier of St John's RC Cathedral, Earlham Road

Conesford Gate
?

Coslany
Coslany Street

Cow Hill
Cow Hill
D
E
F
G

Garden of Remembrance
War Memorial
Location details from OpenStreetMap

George Borrow
Willow Lane

George Borrow
George Borrow House

George Rossi
9 Guildhall Hill

George Skipper
Arcade Street

Green plaque № 3910
Ber Street

Green plaque № 3934
Tombland

Green plaque № 3938
Colegate

Green plaque № 4066
St Giles Street

Green plaque № 6862
The Close, Norwich Cathedral

Green plaque № 8092
Colegate

Green plaque № 8094
St George's Street

Green plaque № 8095
St Laurence Church

Green plaque № 8097
St Crispins Road/Botolph Street corner of Surrey Chapel free church

Green plaque № 8098
St Edmund Church

Green plaque № 8099
Millennium Building

Green plaque № 8120
Entrance to Norwich Prison, Britannia Road

Green plaque № 8122
Formerly the Bethel Hospital on Bethel Street

Green plaque № 8123
Churchman House, 68 Bethel Street

Green plaque № 8124
On wall adjoining 1-6 Cleveland Road

Green plaque № 8133
44 Prince of Wales Road

Green plaque № 8135
Dolphin Inn, 258 Heigham Street

Green plaque № 8142
On front of the Bridge House public house, Riverside Road

Green plaque № 8143
31 Surrey Street

Green plaque № 8147
10 Chapelfield North

Green plaque № 8155
St Georges Street

Green plaque № 8160
St Mary's Baptist Church, St Mary's Plain

Green plaque № 8161
front brick pier of the Assembly House railings

Green plaque № 8167
29 Surrey Street

Green plaque № 8171
Mountergate, on wall of former Norwich Brewery

Green plaque № 8173
Woolpack Inn, Colegate

Grey plaque № 8108
near Carrow Road

Grey plaque № 8109
Carrow Bridge

Grey plaque № 8110
?

Grey plaque № 8111
Paper Mill Yard

Guildhall Hill
Guildhall Hill
H
I
J

James Martineau
24 Magdalen Street

Jem Mace
Swan Lane

Jenny Lind
Pottergate

Jimi Hendrix
Red Lion Street

John Aldrich MP
St Clement's House, St Clement's Alley, 21-16 Colegate

John Asger
Charing Cross

John Bassingham
St Peters Street

John Caius
168 King Street

John Crome
On building formerly called Little Portion Mission House, Cross Lane

John Garrett MP
Princes Street

John Harvey
Gladstone House, St Giles Street

John Henry Gurney
Tombland

John Kirkpatrick
St Andrews Street

John Morse
former BBC premises, All Saints Green

John Paston
Music House, 167 King Street

John Sell Cotman
St Martin at Palace Plain

Joseph Leycester Lyne
Elm Hill

Joseph Leycester Lyne
The Monastery

Joseph Stannard
5 St Giles Terrace

Julian of Norwich
St Julian's Church, Rouen Road
K
L

Lion & Castle Yard
Lion & Castle Yard

Little Sisters of the Assumption
Grapes Hill

London Street
London Street

London Street pedestrianisation
34-36 London St, NR2 1LD

Lord Arthur Samuel
Red Lion Street

Lord Edmund Sheffield
Bishopgate

Lord George Walpole
Orford Hill

Louis Marchesi
50 London Street

Luke Hansard
St Mary Coslany Church doorway, St Mary's Plain
M
N
P
Q
R

Red plaque № 8089
Queens Street

Rev James Wheatley
Shiki, Princes Street

Rev Johannes Elison
Princes Street

Rev William D'Oyley
Orford Place

Richard Spynke
On old city wall, Queens Road

Robert Harvey
20 Colegate

Robert Kett
Norwich Castle

Robert Kett
Low wall on side of bridge facing Riverside Road

Romani DNA
Golden Ball Street
S

Sarah Glover
Pottergate

Sarah Glover
The Merchants of Colegate public house, Colegate

Sarah Glover
St Benedicts Street

Sir Dr Thomas Browne
1 Orford Place

Sir Dr Thomas Browne
Ferry Lane

Sir Fowell Buxton MP 1st Baronet
Upper Goat Lane

Sir John Mills CBE
Upper St Giles Street

Sir John Soane RA
Adjacent to bridge by the Norwich Art School, St Georges Street

Snaylgate
Calvert Street

St Christopher's Church
Princes Street

St Crowche's Church
36 Exchange Street

St Cuthbert's
Norwich

St Giles Street
St Giles Street

St John Maddermarket
St John Maddermarket

St John the Evangelist Church
St John's House, 2-4 Rose Lane/King Street

St Martin in Balliva
Front of Eastern Daily Press Building, Cattlemarket Street

St Mary's
St Marys Plain

St Michael at Thorn
Thorn Lane/Ber Street. Low on wall of the EDP car park.

St Vedast
Temple House, 8-12 St Vedast Street

Stan Laurel
Entrance to St Giles Street car park

Stan Laurel
St Giles Street

Stone plaque № 8194
104 Pottergate

Stone plaque № 8197
near St James Mill, Whitefriars

Stone plaque № 8199
King Street

Stone plaque № 8200
King Street

Stone plaque № 8205
6 Opie Street

Stone plaque № 8225
?

Stone plaque № 8648
Erpingham Gateway - Tombland
T

The Adam and Eve
17 Bishopgate

The Beatles
Grosvenor House, 112-114 Prince of Wales Road

The Most Rev. Matthew Parker
St Saviours Church, Magdalen Street

The Royal Mail postcode system
Gentleman's Walk

The Rt Rev. Walter De Suffield
Bishop Gate

Theatre Royal, Norwich
Theatre Royal, Theatre Street

Thomas Anguish
Maids Head Hotel, Wensum Street

Thomas Bilney
Guildhall, Gaol Hill

Thomas Harvey
Rear of 18 Colegate

Thomas Ivory
Ivory House, All Saints Green

Thomas Pettus
41-43 Elm Hill

Three Tuns
Three Tuns Court, 56-64 King Street

Timberhill
33 Timberhill

Timberhill
Timberhill
U
V
W

Walter Nugent Monck CBE
Maddermarket Theatre, St John Madder Market

Walter Nugent Monck CBE
Maddermarket Theatre, St John's Alley

Westlegate
20 Westlegate

White Lion Street
White Lion Street

William Barley
Strangers Hall, Charing Cross

William Crotch
St Crispins Road/Botolph Street corner of Surrey Chapel free church

William Kemp
Maddermarket Theatre, St Johns Alley

William Moore
London Street

William Norwyche
Side of St Georges Church in Muspole Street

William Wilberforce
Earlham Hall

William Wilkins RA
Market Avenue

Worsted Seld
Pottergate

Wrights Court
Wright's Court, off Elm Hill
Data sources
Location records are drawn from open, licence-clean datasets, kept here with attribution and gratitude to the people who maintain them.
- Open Plaques, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). See openplaques.org.
- Wikidata, available under the CC0 1.0 Universal dedication.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
- Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) — never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.
Editorial descriptions, photography and tribute links are original TributeLegacy work, layered on top of the open data.