Norwich, St George Tombland

I found St George Tombland locked but with a notice advising of, if I remember correctly, summer opening hours - this is a shame as it sounds like it's an interesting interior.

ST GEORGE TOMBLAND. Several legacies for the building of the tower in 1445. Repair of the tower 1645. It has a niche below the W window, and traceried sound-holes. The flushwork decoration of the battlements with big lozenges and shields might well be C17. Two-storeyed S porch. Parapet with flushwork quatrefoils. Tierceron-star-vault inside with a boss of St George in the centre. Two-storeyed N porch with the N aisle attached to its E. Plainer vault, without tiercerons, though with ridge ribs. In the N one window with Dec motifs, framed by two Perp ones. Yet they belong to the same build.Coarse arcades with octagonal piers and triple-chamfered arches. The one-bay N chapel has a four-centred arch. - FONT. Octagonal, C13, of Purbeck marble, with two shallow arches to each side. - FONT COVER.  Jacobean or later. Eight columns and an openwork obelisk in the middle. - REREDOS and chancel PANELLING. Good early C18, with an open segmental pediment on Corinthian columns. - PULPIT. C18 with panels of lively shape and a big tester. - COMMUNION RAIL. With slender twisted balusters. - SWORD AND MACE RESTS. Wrought iron; C18. - SCULPTURE. Relief of St George, German (?), c.1530. - Statuette of St George on horseback, on the font cover; Baroque. - PLATE. Large set, made in London, 1750-1. - Also, from St Simon and St. Jude, Chalice 1632-3 and Paten 1634-5, both made in Norwich. - MONUMENTS. Alderman Anguish, by Nicholas Stone, 1617, but not of special interest. The usual composition with kneeling figures facing one another. - Mary Gardiner d. 1748. A cherub stands and lifts a cloth off a portrait medallion. Obelisk background. The corbels are placed diagonally. - Thomas Maltby d. 1760. Cherub in front of an obelisk. - Many more tablets.

St George’s church stands at a corner of Tombland, now a tree-shaded space facing the cathedral gates but once the Danish market-place, moved by the Normans to its present site. St George’s is chiefly 15th century, with remains of an earlier building. It has a fine clock tower, a clerestory of patterned brickwork, a south porch with carved bosses in its vaulted roof (the middle one showing St George standing on a dragon), and a north porch serving as a children’s chapel. Over the doorway is an old coloured panel with St George fighting the dragon by a castle, the princess clasping her hands at prayer. There is old woodwork in the 15th-century roof of the chancel (with 12 angels supporting its shafts), an old roof of the nave with carved borders, and a splendid Jacobean pulpit with a star inlaid in its great canopy. The cover of the font is 17th century; the font itself is perhaps 700 years old. There are roundels of old glass, small panels of 17th-century glass, and an old chest. A tiny wall monument of 1609 has coloured figures of John Symonds and his wife in ruffs, she wearing a black dress and hood; John left two shillings a week for ever to the poor. The organ hides the monument of William Anguish of 1668, where he kneels with his wife and seven children.