NHER 53125 (Building record) - Church of St Catherine, Aylsham Road, Norwich

Church. 1933-35. By A.D.R. Caroe and A.P. Robinson. Grey-purple and buff-brown brick with blue-grey pantile roof with blank parapets. Plan of chancel, low crossing tower, transepts, and nave with N and S vestries and porches. A subtle combination of elemental Romanesque and modern styles with tall narrow square-headed windows.
Chancel has a broken-pointed east window and a tall window to each side, then there is a saddleback-roofed tower oversailing the projecting transepts. These again have tall windows and the tower has narrow louvred openings, those to east and west a group of five following the line of the gable. The nave has 5 tall windows to each side set in panels framed by thin buttresses and a projecting blank parapet. Small vestry and porch projections with carefully designed shallow planes of brickwork and ornamental doors. The west end has a monumental arch between two tower elements with a 7-light window within, following the arch and set over the bowed projection of the baptistery. The whole exterior displays a finely considered employment of the two shades of brick. The west end faces the church hall, symmetrically placed opposite it, and with which it forms a group.
See (S1) for further information.
A. Cattermole (NLA), 12 November 2009.