NHER 26598 (Monument record) - Carmelite Friary and Baptist Graveyard, Jarrolds/Whitefriars, Norwich

April 2001. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of geotechnical investigations and trenches excavated to investigate foundations of extant warehouse.
Recorded made ground over alluvium and gravels. No archaeological features or finds were encountered.
See report (S1) for further details.
Previously recorded as NHER 26586 [1].
D. Gurney (NLA), 6 February 2002. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 30 March 2015 and 2 September 2020.

September 2001. Desk-based Assessment.
See report (S2) for further details.

February-April 2002. Trial Trenching and Watching Brief.
Wall foundations and floors associated with the monastic buildings and rubble deposits associated with their destruction were recorded in four of six evaluation trenches. In addition, extensive structural remains of the friary and in situ deposits associated with the destruction of the monastery were identified during monitoring of the removal of foundations of the 1960's factory. Occupation following the dissolution of the monastery was seen to have continued along the street-front, and a post medieval cemetery was revealed on the north-eastern perimeter of the development area.
A watching brief was also conducted during the removal of concrete stanchions associated with the 1960's factory.
See report (S3) for further details. The results of this work are summarised in (S4). See also press cutting (S5).
J. Allen (NLA), 15 January 2002.

April-June 2002 and August 2003. Excavation and Watching Brief. Contexts 10000-12231.
The earliest deposit encountered was a medieval river deposit above which lay a cobbled surface sealed by a cess-stained deposit which may coincide with the earliest phase of the Carmelite Friary or may pre-date it (pre-Friary deposits were generally un-excavated). A sequence of raft deposits overlaid the medieval river deposit above which friary floor surfaces were established. The lower parts of the friary walls survived well and it was possible to identify the east and north walks of the cloister, rooms off the cloister (including the warming room) and, probably, elements of the friary church to the south. A small but crowded area of post-medieval human burials overlaid the rooms to the north of a 'chapel'. These 'Anabaptist' burials belonged to the Baptist chapel of Priory Yard, which was in use between 1697 and 1875.
See assessment report (S6) for further details. Final report awaited.
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2016.485).
J. Allen (NLA) 11 March 2007. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 June 2019.

The mapped extent of this record has been corrected to better reflect the actual areas that were subject to archaeological work between 2001 and 2002 [2].
P. Watkins 2 September 2020.