St James the Less, Pockthorpe

St James the Less, Pockthorpe is a redundant church located just inside the medieval city of , Norfolk, England. First recorded in 1180, the church served a small city parish; the area it served was greatly expanded during the English Reformation to include both the hamlet of Pockthorpe and an adjoining part of Mousehold Heath.
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  • Type: Theater building
  • Description: Grade I listed church in Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom. Deconsecrated
  • Also known as: “Norwich Puppet Theatre”, “Saint James”, “Saint James Pockthorpe”, “Saint James the Less”, and “Saint James the Less, Pockthorpe”
  • Address: Whitefriars, Norwich, NR3 1TN

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Norwich Cathedral and Norwich Castle.

Church
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, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, is a Church of England cathedral in the city of , , England. is situated 1,400 feet south of St James the Less, Pockthorpe.

Museum
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is a medieval royal fortification in the city of , in the English county of . William the Conqueror ordered its construction in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest of England. is situated 2,800 feet south of St James the Less, Pockthorpe.

Church
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St Martin at Palace Plain, Norwich is a Grade I listed redundant parish church in the Church of England in . is situated 840 feet south of St James the Less, Pockthorpe.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Norwich and Thorpe Hamlet.

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

Suburb
is a suburb of , to the east of the city centre, in the Norwich District, in the English county of . 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 .

Locality
The is a wedge-shaped area within the southwestern suburbs of , . The base of the Triangle is at the Colman Road stretch of the outer ring road, which is one mile southwest of the city's inner ring, with the other two sides – Earlham Road and Newmarket Road – pointing into the city centre.

St James the Less, Pockthorpe

Latitude
52.63592° or 52° 38′ 9″ north
Longitude
1.30033° or 1° 18′ 1″ east
Operator
Norwich Historic Churches Trust
Open location code
9F43J8P2+94
Open­Street­Map ID
way 101978508
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­theatre
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­church
Wiki­data ID
Q7061525
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