If it’s easy to overlook many things, it is perhaps just as easy to ‘under look’ many fine things that loom above us as we pass through an historic city like Norwich. A good example of this tendency is the wonderful fifteenth century vaulted ceiling to be found underneath the west tower of St John Maddermarket, central Norwich.
This passageway was built to accomodate the religious processions that were a key part of the late medieval liturgy. The quality of this carved ceiling was undoubtedly financed by a wealthy donor - in this part of the city, most probably a merchant. No doubt their hope was that such an investment would facilitate their passage through the tortures of purgatory.
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