Company info

Stay Norwich Apartments is managed by London Diary. We are a hospitality company working in the industry worldwide for over 20 years.

Property info

This property is located in the heart of the city but at the same time tucked away on a quiet street. You are in walking distance for all the shops, restaurants and bars. But more importantly on the doorstep of most of the historic sites and walks in and around Norwich. There is no record of the date when Elm Hill first came into being, but there is some evidence for its existence around A.D. 1200. Very few buildings standing above ground in Elm Hill are of an earlier date than 1507, when a disastrous fire destroyed over 700 houses in Norwich. Britons arms restaurant may be older. Although it may not be immediately apparent today, the North side of Elm Hill runs parallel to the river Wensum and in the past, many of the Merchant houses had their own quays. During the 15th and 16th centuries, Elm Hill and the river were important commercial thoroughfares. The river was the route from which raw materials were imported and finished products exported via Great Yarmouth. At this time there was industrial prosperity in Norwich due largely to the arrival of religious refugees from Europe and the settlement of a large number of weavers, dyers, goldsmiths and other skilled craftsmen.

Neighborhood info

The Buildings THE CHURCH OF ST. PETER HUNGATE The tower is square, and built of black flints in 1431, by Thomas Ingham. Its unusual pyramid cap was put on in 1906 when the tower had become so unsafe that the battlemented belfry stage was demolished. Nicholas Ingham, who is buried in it, added the south porch in 1497. It has angle buttresses and a niche for a statue over the door. Its ceiling has four bosses –one for each Evangelist. The nave and transepts were totally rebuilt, as ‘a neat building of black flint’, by John and Margaret Paston in 1458. A stone in a buttress near the north door records this – it shows a tree trunk without branches (decay of the old church) with a new shoot (the new building), together with the date of completion, 1460. The chancel had been rebuilt in 1431 by Thomas Ingham and was rebuilt again in 1604 after it had collapsed: it is of rough rubble, plastered over, contrasting with the nave and transepts. Its windows are of an older pattern and have trefoil tracery in the heads. It is covered with peg-tiles, which date from the 1604 rebuilding. By the end of the century, it was again in a bad way: in 1888.

Languages Spoken

English, French