NHER 26033 (Building record) - Church of St Mark, City Road, Norwich

June 1972. Listed, Grade II.
Parish church 1844 by J. Brown; apse and vestry added 1864 by J. H. Brown. Knapped flint (some flushwork on buttresses) with yellow brick dressings. Stone plinth and dressings on chancel. Slate roof. Nave, chancel and west tower. Five two-light perpendicular nave windows. Tall single-light windows with drip moulds in pentangular apse. Crenellated turrets at east end of nave; tall west tower. Interior: west gallery on cast-iron columns; painted rood screen. Framed roof trusses.
Information from (S1).

Press cutting (S2) in file.

February 2009. Statement of Significance.
The Church is constructed of randomly laid knapped flint with gault brick dressings and slate roofs. The tracery is of stone in early Perpendicular style. Each window is tall with transoms and 4 cusped lights with a central cusped upper light flanked by super mullions. The butress copings and strings are of moulded brick probably from the Costessey brick works. The church in its original state has a narrow western tower with polygonal turrets. The turrets originally had spires rising from behind miniature crenellations. A matching pair of turrets flanked the chancel and there was a ventilation latern rising from the centre of the nave. The spires and ventilation latern were removed circe 1930. The tower has paired bell openings with simple unglazed tracery. The bell chamber contains three bells and some disconected possible war time sirens. The ground floor has a tall lancet window and an entrance of a two-centred arch within a rectangular enclosure forming spandrels. The original building had a simple raised chancel and a tall pulpit with twisting stair. The pews had basic poppy head ends. The nave has a shallow-pitched roof of seven bays, and a blind tower arch at the west end. The chancel was replaced in 1864 by John Henry Brown- the son of the original architect. The new chancel is stilted with a facetted apse. The fenestration is more complex than the original, consisting of lancets with compressed tracery to the side elevations and two-light windows to each of the three facets in the apse. The tracery is in the Geometric style of the later 13th century. The chancel roof is based on 5 scissor-based trusses linked by a single pair of side purlins and a central purlin. It is painted with stencilled patterns and a painted inscription which runs the full length of the cornice. The former organ chamber is on the north side and has a parapet pierced with quatrefoils and two traceried windows. A vestry at the south west corner was added in 1887. in 1910 a rood loft and scareen were added by Temple Lushington Moore of Hampstead (1856-1920). Two side chapels were also created. The north chapel extended through the east wall of the nave into the former organ chamber. A new high alter with reredos was made and the rood group on the screen was given by the Bignold family. In 1913, the panels of the loft were painted with scenes from the life of Christ and the Virgin Mary by Charles Head. In 1920 the room beneath the southern loft was refurbished, and the Lady Chapel was refurbished in 1933. The church was damaged by bombing in 1942. In 1953-4 new stained glass windows, made by William Morris and Co. were installed in the east windows.
See (S3) for further information
H. White (NLA), 23 March 2009