Bronze Doors to City Hall
Bronze Doors to City Hall
Bronze Doors to City Hall
Bronze Doors to City Hall
Bronze Doors to City Hall
Bronze Doors to City Hall
Bronze Doors to City Hall

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Six reliefs on each of the three sets of doors – 18 in all. The roundels show: left door (reading across each door); top: bottling wine; filling soda siphons; middle: building the rusticated base of City Hall; vat for brewing beer; bottom: manufacture of aeroplanes (propeller); manufacture of wire netting; centre door: top; building the castle with a hand winch, Vikings; middle: silk winders, cobblers bench and wool comber; old plough, silk winder and cobblers stand; bottom: Black Death, 1349; Thomas Kett hanged, 1549; right door: top: piping chocolate (Woodford's identification on his preparatory drawing); soldering mustard tins on the production line; middle: horse and cow; bull, pig and sheep (for the cattle market); bottom; shoe press, artificial silk weaving (the original drawing was for filling Odell toothpaste tubes).
Title

Bronze Doors to City Hall

Date

1936–1938

Medium

bronze

Measurements

H 260 x W 170 x D (?) cm;
Plinth: H 45 x W (?) x D (?) cm

Accession number

NR2_RHT_S122

Acquisition method

commissioned by James and Pierce on behalf of Norwich City Council 

Work type

Building

Owner

Norwich City Council 

Custodian

Norwich City Council 

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade II* (England and Wales)

Unveiling date

29th October 1938

Access

at all times

Signature/marks description

James Woodford ARA on on door of each of the set of three doorways 

Inscription description

on City Hall, base of left central pier: THIS STONE WAS LAID BY COUNCILLOR WALTER RILEY / LORD MAYOR SEPTEMBER 1936; to right: CHARLES HOLLOWAY JAMES & STEPHEN ROWLAND PIERCE WERE THE ARCHITECTS 

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Located at

St Peter's Street, Norwich

NR2 1NN

Set on the main front entrance to City Hall facing the market.