A Day Out in Norwich 5: The Cathedral Close

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to my concluding post about a day out in Norwich that i enjoyed on Thursday. Previous posts about the day are as follows:

1)Introductory Post

2)Enter the Dragons

3)Lunch at the Belgian Monk

4)The River Wensum

I hope that you will enjoy this post and will be encouraged to share it.

THE CATHEDRAL CLOSE

It is unusual in the 21st century to find a Cathedral Close, but Norwich still has one, and there were many splendid things to photograph. The first of two dragons (note the title of the second post referred to above) was Biggles, the RAF dragon…

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There are also two statues of famous warriors, Nelson and Wellington…

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There were also many birds around…

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Of course, in a place of this nature one would expect plenty of interesting old architecture, and such expectation was met…

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This iron sculpture also appealed, as did this chance to include a dragon and a blackbird in the same shot…

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My survey of the Cathedral Close began with one dragon and its with another, Norwich Serafina, the Norwich School Dragon…

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