Cow Tower

The Cow Tower is an artillery tower by the River Wensum in Norwich, Norfolk, England. Built between 1398 and 1399 by the city authorities in response to the threat from France and indigenous English rebels, the tower was intended to defend the north-eastern approach to Norwich with hand cannons and bombards.

Photo: Robert Powell, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Type: Historic building
Description: Medieval artillery tower in Norwich, England, UK
Also known as: “Blockhouse known as the Cow Tower” and “Cow Tower, Norwich”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Norwich Cathedral and Carrow Road.

Norwich Cathedral

Church

Photo: Aleister Crowley, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Norwich Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Norwich, Norfolk, England. Norwich Cathedral is situated 1,800 feet southwest of Cow Tower.

Carrow Road

Stadium

Photo: Mls11, Public domain.

Carrow Road is a football stadium in Norwich, Norfolk, England, and is the home of EFL Championship club Norwich City. The stadium is east of the city, near Norwich railway station and the River Wensum. Carrow Road is situated 1 mile south of Cow Tower.

St Helen’s Church, Norwich

Church

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St Helen's Church is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Norwich. St Helen’s Church, Norwich is situated 910 feet southwest of Cow Tower.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Thorpe Hamlet and Norwich.

Thorpe Hamlet

Suburb

Photo: Colin, CC BY 2.0.

Thorpe Hamlet is a suburb of Norwich, to the east of the city centre, in the Norwich District, in the English county of Norfolk. It was constituted a separate ecclesiastical parish on 9 March 1852, from the civil parish of Old Thorpe, and in 1912, was in the rural deanery of Blofield.

Norwich

Photo: Ashley Dace, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Norwich, a two-cathedral city, is the capital of the English county of Norfolk, within the larger region of East Anglia. It lies some 185 km NNE of London, and as well as being a convenient base for exploring the Broads and the North Norfolk Coast is also…