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| Visitor | Charge |
|---|---|
| For anyone: | Free |
| Donations: | Welcome |
Mid-September to mid-May: 7.30am until 6pm daily
Mid-May to mid-September: 7.30am until 7pm daily.
The Cathedral is open every day of the year.
Public tours Tours and activities run all year for adults, schoolchildren and families - all visitors are welcome. Guided tours begin at the West End of the Cathedral. Monday to Saturday at 10.45, 12.00 noon and 14.15 each day. Each tour lasts approximately 1 hour.
Tours of the Labyrinth Our Cathedral Guides can offer tours and interpretation sessions of our famous Jubilee Labyrinth. Please contact the Visitors' Officer on Tel.01603 218440.
We take bookings for Group Tours all year. Advance booking is preferred, please give at least a weeks notice - contact the Visitors' Officer on Tel.01603 218 321.
Tours for group bookings are run any day of the week, and can begin between 10.00am and 5.00pm. They will last approximately an hour and begin at the West End of the Cathedral. Catering for the group can also be provided in the Cathedral's Refectory Restaurant.
We offer Guided tours and information in English, Francais, Deutsch, Italiano and Espanol. We also have information available in Nederlands, Japanese and Russian, but regret that we do not offer guided tours in these languages.
The cost per person is:
| Visitor | Charge |
|---|---|
| Adults | £4.00 |
| Child or Student | £1.00 |
We use Norwich Cathedral to help the 15,000 school children who visit us each year understand the building in a number of ways. The Education Department runs activities and tours that have been designed to complement Key Stages, which use the Cathedral to approach various religious and historical topics all year round. These include the Monk's Trail, the Civil War Trail and much more. For full details or to organise a visit, please see the teacher pages on our website or contact the Education Officer directly.
| Telephone | +44 (0) 1603 218320 |
|---|---|
| education@cathedral.org.uk |
Everyone is welcome to join the Cathedral Congregation at any of the daily cathedral services.
| Time | Service |
|---|---|
| Sundays | |
| 07.30 | Morning Prayer |
| 08.0 | Holy Communion |
| 09.15 | Holy Communion (1st & 2nd Sundays each month) |
| 10.30 | Sung Eucharist |
| 15.30 | Evensong |
| 18.30 | Evening Service |
| Weekdays | |
| 07.30 | Morning Prayer |
| 08.0 | Holy Communion |
| 11.0 | Holy Communion (Tuesday & Thursday) |
| 12.30 | Holy Communion (Monday, Wednesday & Friday) |
| 17.15 | Evensong (Monday - Friday) |
| 15.30 | Evensong (Saturday) |
Books, postcards and other merchandise are stocked in our Shop and there is a restaurant, and toilets. We have a touch-screen CD-ROM unit, with over 900 detailed photos of the unique roof bosses, so that you can inspect this impressive decoration of the vault from the safety of the ground.
Norwich Cathedral welcomes disabled visitors and is working hard to improve its accessibility.
Level access and Disabled Access lifts: There is a disabled access lift at the West Door of the cathedral, where visitors can also find disabled access plans for orientation and information.
The South Door has level access.
The Dark Entry provides level access for the Cloisters, leading to the Disabled Access lift to gain access to the Refectory restaurant, Cathedral Library and Toilets.
The Cathedral Shop has level access.
Wheelchairs on loan: There are wheelchairs available to borrow at the South and West Doors. Contact the Visitors' Officer. Tel: 01603 218 321 vis-profficer@cathedral.org.uk or ask any member of staff once you are in the building.
Large Print leaflets: We have leaflets in large print available from our Information Point at the West End of the Cathedral.
Our Cathedral Guides are happy to take visitors around the cathedral who are blind, partially sighted. Deaf and hard of hearing visitors and groups are also very welcome but we regret that currently none of our Cathedral Guides can practice deaf-sign language, so an interpreter may be necessary.
| Cars | |
|---|---|
| For services: | Parking is available in the Cathedral Close Cloister Car Park for those attending Cathedral Services or evening events. Upon arrival, please report to the uniformed Gatekeeper on duty who will send you to a suitable parking place. |
| Appointments | Parking is available for persons with an appointment for visiting members of Cathedral Staff. Upon arrival, please report to the uniformed Gatekeeper on duty who will send you to a suitable parking place. |
| Visitors to Tenants | Parking is available for visitors to firms whose offices are in the Cathedral Close, providing that there is parking space available for them |
| Tourists | No parking is available in the Cathedral Close for visitors, with the exception of Disabled Parking for Disabled drivers who are Disabled Badge holders. The nearest pay and display car park is at the Adam and Eve pub at Bishop Gate, ten minutes walk from the cathedral. |
| Coaches | |
There is no coach access into the Cathedral Close except under special circumstances (by appointment only). Coaches can drop off passengers outside the Erpingham Gate, in front of the Cathedral West End, or at Palace Plain, five minutes walk from the Erpingham Gate, near to Bishop Gate. | |
| Disabled | |
Car Parking is available in the Cathedral Close for disabled drivers with Disabled Badges only. Drivers with disabled passengers are very welcome to enter the Cathedral Close and drop off or pick up persons at either cathedral entrance (disabled access at West and South Doors) but are not allowed to park in the Cathedral Close for the duration of the visit. The nearest pay and display car park is at the Adam and Eve pub at Bishop Gate, ten minutes walk from the cathedral. Coach or minibus access into the Cathedral Close for disabled parties is welcome but parking permits are given by prior arrangement only. Contact the Visitors' Officer, tel: 01603 218 321 vis-profficer@cathedral.org.uk. Coaches or minibuses with disabled passengers without a permit are welcome to drop off or pick up persons at either cathedral entrance (disabled access at West and South Doors) but are not allowed to park in the Cathedral Close for the duration of the visit. | |
Access by road from M11/A11, A140 or A147. A47, then A11 to city centre, inner ring road to Barrack Street roundabout, take the road towards the city centre to Tombland. There are also good rail connections to Norwich.
| Address | Gareth Gladman Visitor Officer and Volunteer Coordinator Norwich Cathedral 12 The Close Norwich NR1 4EH England. |
|---|---|
| Local map | Multimap |
| Telephone | |
| +44 (0) 1603 218440 | vis-profficer@cathedral.org.uk |
| Fax | Website |
| +44 (0) 1603 766032 | www.cathedral.org.uk |