to the Unitarians is by far the most elegant. It is an octangular building supported within-side by eight elegant Corinthian Pillars. The pews are wainscot, the cieling is an ornamented dome, and the effect of the whole, is remarkably striking. The first stone of the Building was laid, by the celebrated Dr. Taylor, on the 25th of February, 1754. The expence of the building which was near £5000. was defrayed by the congregation, who can number among their Ministers, several of great literay celebrity, in particular Dr. John Taylor, Dr. Enfieid, Mr. Bourne, and Mr. George Morgan.
The Independents’ meeting-house, stands a little to the east of the foregoing, in the parish of St. Clement’s: it is a large handsome square building, and was finished about 1693. The limits of this design will not admit of a particular enumeration of all the places of worship, belonging to the various congregations of Anabaptists, Methodists, &c. of which there are many, chiefly in the northern part of the city.
The Excise-office, is at the Bull, in Magdalen-street. The Permit-office, in St. Peter’s Hungate, opposite the Church. The Stamp-office, St. Giles’s Broad street, I. H. Cole, Esq. Receiver.
The Post-office is in the Tuns’ court, near the market-place, where the Mails arrive from London, every forenoon, (Monday excepted), between and 12 o’clock, and are dispatched every afternoon, (Saturday excepted), at four o’clock; the Mails from all the intermediate places branching upon the London road, arrive and are dispatched at the same time every day. The Mail to Yarmouth, is dispatched immediately
after the arrival of the Mails from London, and the Mail from Yarmouth, arrives here every day at four o’clock. The Mails from Cromer, Aylsham, North-Walsham, &c. arrive here every day, early in the forenoon, and are dispatched from twelve to one. G. Litchfield, Esq. Post-master.
Post-horse duty office, Rampant-horse street, St. Stephen’s, Mr. J. M. Murry, Collector.
Surveyor of Assessed Taxes, Mr. C. Lay. St. Giles’s, broad street.
Norwich market has for a long series of years, been held in the highest estimation, for the quantity and quality of provisions, with which it has been supplied, particularly for poultry, which are sent from hence, in considerable quantities to London, and various other parts of the kingdom. The market is under the regulation of a Committee from the Court of Aldermen, and Commons. Market-days, Wednesday and Saturday. Collector of the market, Mr. R. Harmar. The Fish-market, adjoining, is generally well supplied (from Yarmouth) daily, as is the butchery, with beef and mutton.
The Norwich cattle-market, held on the castle meadow, every Saturday, has for many years been increasing, and is considered at this time, the first cattle-market in the kingdom, out of the metropolis. The Corporation, at an Assembly held in September, 1809, ordered pens to be erected for pigs and sheep, more convenient places to be assigned for beasts, horses, stalls, waggons, carts, &c.; and tolls were ordered to be collected, viz. for pigs and sheep, 8d.
per score; beasts, when sold 2d. each, by the purchaser; for horses, 6d. each; for waggons, brought for sale, 1s. each; for stalls, 6d. each; for every auction, 1s.; for calves and mules, 1d. each. Here also is the weighbridge for Hay, &c., Mr. C. Hubbard, hay-weigher, and collector of the cattle-market.