Newsletters

The Group publishes two newsletters a year in April and September. These newsletters contain:
        • short papers by the winter speakers
        • members' reports on meetings and visits
        • individual building studies by the Group
        • brief digest of buildings visited by the Group
        • short articles on research in Norfolk by both members and non-members
        • regular updates of the current major projects
        • diary of events
The editor is Alayne Fenner and production assistant, Ian Hinton. Either would be pleased to hear from you if you have a short article about Norfolk historic buildings or closely associated topics.

Newsletter Contact Details
Alayne Fenner Ian Hinton
24 Mount Pleasant The Old Rectory
Norwich NR2 2DG Barnby, Beccles, NR34 7QN
   
 alayne.fenner@btinternet.com  ian.hinton222@btinternet.com
 01603  452204  01502 475 287



Please Note:  the pdf Newsletter files may be quite large and take a little while to download.
 

No 1:           Spring   2001:  
The Built Environment of King's Lynn; Doing different: A study of the diversity of historic buildings in Norfolk; Developments in Plan-form in smaller post-medieval houses: a case study from Norfolk.

No 2:           Autumn  2001:
Two views of New Buckenham; Wattle and daub days; Walking tour of Great Yarmouth; Barn at Brooke, Norfolk; The Cottage, Rosemary Lane, New Buckenham; Boulton & Paul timber-framed pre-fabricated buildings.
No 3:          Spring   2002:
East Anglian Flintwork; Heigham Grove; Patronage of Modernist Architecture in Norfolk; Roman Buildings in West Norfolk; The Use of Probate Inventories; Alignment of Medieval Rural Churches; The maintenance of town property in Wymondham c.1590 c.1640; Vernacular houses in the Norfolk landscape; Domestic building in Norwich 1750– 1800; Partially timber-framed house in Hindolveston.

No 4:          Autumn  2002:  
The building of Loddon Church; King's Head Cottage, Banham, Norfolk;Hempnall; Visit to Methwold and Northwold, George Skipper's Norwich; King Street, Norwich;  Gable Cottage, New Buckenham.

No 5:          Spring   2003:  
Visit to Wells; Stiffkey Hall; Tibenham Farm, Tibenham, Norfolk; Visit to Mannington and Wolterton Halls; History of Decorative Plasterwork; Sedgeford Parish Church; Bricks in History; Blackford Hall, Stoke Holy Cross; Norfolk Earthworks Survey; Merchant Housing at Yarmouth; Norfolk Buildings – Documentary Sources.

No 6:          Autumn  2003:  
Visit to Sedgeford; Arts & Crafts Architecture on the Norfolk Coast; A day in Wymondham; Visit to East Barsham Manor and The Old Rectory, Great Snoring; Visit to the Great Hospital, Norwich, Visit to Thetford; A Mayoral Residence of mid -18th Century Norwich; a south Norfolk farmhouse.

No 7:          Spring   2004:  
Skirting Boards made from tiles; The Octagon Chapel, Norwich; Thomas Ivory (1709-1779); 2 Willow Road, Hampstead, London; Godwick Barn, Norfolk; a Norwich Undercroft; Norfolk's Anglo-Norman Castles: form and function; Mathematical tiles; Two ornamental Cornices;  Cromer's oldest house; Priory Farm Rushall, Norfolk.
No 8:          Autumn  2004:  
Brick in Eastern England; Looking up at Diss; Ketteringham; Little Walsingham; The Old Hall, East Tuddenham, Norfolk; Oulton Chapel; The Dower House, Tacolneston; Wallpaper at Narborough Hall.
No 9:          Spring   2005:
Church and Old Hall, South Burlingham; Visit to Old Hunstanton; New Hunstanton: Art Noveau in Detail; Medieval Gildhalls; Medieval Shops; St Martin's, New Buckenham; Porch Roof at All Saints, Old Buckenham; Chestnut Cottage, Forncett End.
No 10:        Autumn  2005:
From East Anglia to New England; Harleston Day; A view of Swaffham; Redenhall Church; Swaffham Church; Cromer - a Late Victorian Seaside Town; Visit to Raynham Hall; Hemsby Barn; Waxham Great Barn; Gowthorpe Manor visit; The Ancient House, Thetford.
No 11:        Spring   2006:  
The use of brick in East Anglia: functional or cultural; Laser survey of Norwich Cathedral; Visit to Aylsham; 18 Red Lion Street, Aylsham: Norfolk's native building stone; Beech Cottage, Tacolneston; Moulded church pier arcades.
No 12:         Autumn  2006:  
Visit to Paston barn and church; The Houghton archive; Visit to Diss; Churchman House, Norwich; The Old Post Office, Gissing;Visit to Rainthorpe Hall; Britons Arms and The Queen of Hungary, Norwich; Bridge Green Farm, Burston.
No 13:        Spring   2007:
Visit to Bradfield Woods; Harleston; Tour of Great Yarmouth; Dovecotes in Norfolk and Elsewhere; South door, St Michael's Church, Irstead; Gazebo at Baconsthorpe, Old Rectory.
No 14:         Autumn  2007:  
Ghost Airfields of Norfolk; Three Norfolk Church Towers; Kirstead Hall; Visit to Wells: Photographic Day: Manor Farm, Pulham Market; Tour of Loddon.
No 15:         Spring   2008:
House and home in pre-historic Norfolk; Goldsmiths' Premises in East Anglia, 1500–1750; The building history of St Margaret's Church, Cley-next-the-Sea, in the Middle Ages;  Manor Farm, Pulham Market; The Rookery, Fundenhall;Timber-framed chimneys.
No 16:       Autumn  2008:  
Binham Priory and Village; Four Norfolk roodscreens; Visit to Heydon Hall, church and village; Visit to Worstead Village; Nos 33-43 Damgate, Wymondham; King's Lynn; Wingfield, Suffolk, Church and College; Barnham Broom Old Hall.
No 17:     Spring   2009:  
Surviving Military Structures on the Suffolk Coast; Overstrand Revisited; Flint Day; Buildings of The Wolterton Estate; Small Houses in Late Medieval York and Norwich; Rebirth of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in the 18790s; NHBG Dendro Dates in South Norfolk
No 18:        Autumn  2009:
                    Tacolneston, Tydd St Giles and Wisbech; 15th C piety in the Glaven valley; Possible columbarium at St 
Nicholas, Blakeney, Beccles; Castle Acre: Castle and Priory; clay Plain Tile Roofs; Barningham Hall, Matlaske; Anchor Joint, Neatishead; Norfolk Rural Schools Project.
No 19:    Spring  2010:  
Tacolneston; Norwich Visit; Sir John Soan in Norfolk; Houses of the Sussex Cinque Ports; Norfolk's Medieval Stained Glass; Manor Farm, Pulham Market, Nfk; Pulham North Green; Late Medieval Church Towers in Norfolk; The Norfolk Rural Schools Survey.
No 20:    Autumn  2010:  
Launch of Little Walsingham Project; The Greenhouse Project; Ryston Hall, Ryston; Foulsham in June; Common Edge Houses, Orchard House, Rural Schools Project; Anchor Ties and Tusk Tenons