The majority of the Norwich churches are of Perpendicular flint work, mostly of the 15th century. At Carrow, east of the city, there remain the hall, a doorway, and other fragments of a Benedictine nunnery. The house in which Borrow resided with his parents when in Norwich is now a Borrow museum, pre sented by A. M. Samuels in 1913. The Stranger's Hall, a 15th century house on Charing Cross, was given as an English Folk museum by L. G. Bolingbroke. In 1921 Sir Eustace Gurney presented to the city the Lazar House, a Norman relic contempo rary with the cathedral, for the purpose of a branch public library. In 1925 Miss E. M. Colman, the first lady in England to be Lord Mayor, and her sister restored and presented to the city the i4th century Suckling House.
The grammar school is a Decorated edifice, formerly a chapel of St. John, of c. 1316, with crypt below. Sir Edward Coke, Lord Nelson, Raja Brooke and George Borrow were educated here. St. Andrew's Hall is the seven-bayed nave of the Black Friars' church, rebuilt with the aid of the Erpinghams between 1440 and 147o. It is Perpendicular, with 28 clerestory windows and chestnut hammer-beam roof, and has served since the Refor mation as a public hall. It was restored in 1863. The guild-hall,
on the site of an earlier tolbooth, is a flint Perpendicular struc ture of 1408-13 ; the mayor's council-chamber, with furniture of the time of Henry VIII., is a specimen of a court of justice of that period. The city regalia, kept here, include several objects of historical interest, amongst them a sword of a Spanish admiral captured by Nelson, with his autograph letter presenting it to the city, and a curious figure formerly used in the procession of the mayor elect through the city. The Norfolk and Norwich library was rebuilt in 190o after a fire. The charitable institutions include St. Giles's or old men's hospital (an ancient foundation), and Doughty's hospital (1687).
Norwich is extending and enlarging its industries, which include foundries and engineering works, iron and wire fence works, brewing, brick works, chemical works, tanneries, and the produc tion of mustard, starch, malt vinegar, and crepe, gauze and lace; and there are large boot and shoe factories. The great cattle market lies below the castle. The chief magistrate was created lord mayor in 1910.