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We have already alluded to the fact, that in the reign of William the Conqueror there were 45 city churches; and it appears from an inventory of the ornaments in the churches of the Norwich archdeaconry—commenced by William de Swyneflete in 1368, and continued to about 1419—that at that period there were 55 churches in use, exclusive of the Cathedral and conventual churches, besides the following which had then been desecrated or annexed to other parishes: St. Wyndwall, or Catherine in Newgate, (consolidated with All Saints, the parish being nearly depopulated by the plague in 1349), St. Olave’s Chapel, St. Michael Conisford, St. John the Evangelist, St. Cuthbert, St. Matthew, St. Christopher (united with St. Andrew), and St. Anne. Of the 55 then in use, the following, however, have long ceased to exist as parish churches; St. Botolph, St. Margaret Newbridge, St. Mary Combust, St. Margaret Colegate, St. Olave, (the two last named were taken down and consolidated with St. George at Colegate), St. Cross, St. Bartholomew (united with St. John at Sepulchre), St. Michael, (Ber Street,) St. Edward, St. Clement Conisford, St. Vedast, and St. Mary Parva (now the French Church). St. Mary in the Marsh was desecrated in 1653, and the parishioners have since used St. Luke’s Chapel, in the Cathedral.

We append a statement of all the edifices now standing, in connection with the Established Church, commencing of course with