NOR 
‘well are ten a windows with femicircular heads furround- 
ow bricked u In that at 
are formed by plain fquared 
ones, and the former are aifpofed i in the fhape of an acute 
e tower is of very remote antiquity, and t 
pointed a or aioe are coeval with the original build- 
ing. King, author of Munimenta Antiqua, confiders 
thefe ftru€tures to be Saxon, and fays, “ brogaened of thefe 
round Saxon towers is at Wittingham church, near Trowfe 
in Norfolk, only its top has been ail in height and re- 
paired.’’ Other fpecimens of the ancient circular or Saxon 
ftyle of pari are difplayed in = following buildings. 
“Th e churc uncon near Downham, now in 
ruins, has a (emi dias eaft end: aad | it may be obferved 
that a church in this manor was given to the famous abbey 
at Bury in the time of king Can 
Thwaite church, near oe ce a fine femicircular arch 
of entrance on the fouth fi 
In St. Julian’s church at — was formerly an orna- 
mental arched entrance of a fimilar kind. 
moft curious and interefting {pecimen of the ancient 
cay is that at Caftle 
OF the large and eae pia Norman churches a few fine 
a are to in this county, the principal of 
is the c sihcdeal cla ch of Norwich. This nobl 
edifice difplays eect mete gf ecciniens of mafly polite 
Ps 
and femicircular arche numerous appropriate mould- 
ings, capitals, bafes, n the ruined churches of Wy- 
dham, Attlebury, aa ec >. nd St. Mar- 
garet’s at Lynn, are feveral e ies arly the fame 
mpiles of n 
ftyle and age, and all difplay eonadertble sane of defign 
with ftability of conftruétion, Examples o é ater and 
t. Nicholas 
NOR 
any means gets Lea them the froft foon levels the work, 
Many, indeed moft, of our churches and public buildings 
in this county are built almoft wholly of this material; but 
the moft remarkable I have obferved in flints faced and 
{quared, and laid in {mall regular courfes, is the convent gate 
to Norwich cathedral, which was built in the reign of 
— rd I., where the walls to the eaft and the fouth have a 
tracery wo 7 fo deo ith Lieder and the intervals are 
e about Erpingham’s-gate, 
William Appleyard, who was the fi 
ffi rag e, which was afterwards fold to 
poration, ae the prefent Bridewell. Many parts 
er ose have been alfo built in this way, as at Cromer, &c. 
orfolk. and many in Suffolk and Effex. The art of 
Equa ng the flints in this curious manner is now almoft 
totally negleGted, though I am convinced it might very foon 
be brought to perfection again from the facility I obferved 
the workman acquire by a little practice i in repairing under 
my oo ache reo in bifhop Bagot’s time, a tower belong- 
ing to the p ’’ The authorities for the preceding ac- 
count are, "An *Effay towards a Topographical Hiftory of 
the County of Norfolk, by F. Blomefield, 11 vols. 8vo. 
general View of the Agriculture of Norfolk, by A. Young, 
8vo. 1804. General View of the Agriculture of the County 
of Norolt; by N. Kent, 8vo. 1796. Beauties of England, 
vol. xi, Boks Soret F.S.A. 
NorFo.x, a populous maritime county of Maffachufetts, 
in ees nee taken from the fouthern part of the 
county of Suffolk, and lying to the fouthward round the 
the churches of St. Peter Mancroft and, St. George’s, &c. harbour and town of Bofton: it contains 20 townfhips, 
at sale in thofe of Hingham, Aylefham, Cromer, of which Dedham is the feat of juftice. The number of 
Fake a eerham, ek » &c. Several of inhabitants is 27,216.—Alfo, a populous county of Virginia, 
thefe buildings are ye eens, pifcinas, monu- bounded ames’ iva: which divides it from War- 
ments, fonts, &c. f the i. ‘pardeularly fine fpecimens 
are to be found in ~ churches of Binham, Norwich, Walf- 
Venta Icenorum ; alfo in 
Norwich caftle, Caftle Rifing, and in feveral old churches 
in this county. In the former Mr. Wilkins, in Archzologia 
ftates, that alternate courfes of {quared flints were em- 
The fame fcientific archite& further obferves, 
wick. It contains 7758 free inhabitants, and 47 
Alfo, a port of entry, poft-town, and feat of j oe in the 
above county, on the E. fide of Elizabeth river, immediately 
below the confluence of the eaftern branch. It is the moft 
confiderable commercial town in ginia. e harbour 
is. + and com 
It co -houfes, a court- 
foie gaol, an eee and Methodift church, a theatre, 
and an academy mber of free inhabitants i 18 4222, 
feveral aldermen 
Indies, Europe, : and the different ftates, and conititutes with 
Portfmouth, which ftands on the oppofite fide of the river, 
aport of entry. The exports for the pee ending Sept. 30, 
1794, amounted in value to 1,660,752 dollars. canal is 
formed from the N. branch of Albemarle found in North 
Carolina to the wales or the S. branch of Elizabeth sale 
Canada, 
the cee Thames, on re W. = Eris until it meets 
the Barbue (called the Orwell iy cine by a line run- 
ning 
unded N. 
