Summer Events are open to members only. Winter Lectures are open to everyone – members and non-members. Summaries of lectures and reports on visits are usually provided in the Newsletter; the archive of which you can access here.
Currently our winter meetings are free and held over Zoom in order to widen our audience and allow out-of-county members to attend. If the Group returns to in-person meetings there may be a small charge.
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Lectures
Winter Lectures 2025-26
The programme is as follows Thursday 16 October 2025: The French Borough of Norwich by Jonathan Hooton Thursday 20 November 2025: Crenels and Merlons by John Vigar Tuesday 9 December 2025: The Angel Roofs of Norfolk by Sarah Cassell Wednesday 14 January 2026: The...
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Winter Lectures 2024-25
All meetings will be held over ZOOM @ 7.20 for 7.30pm. The Eventbrite ticket-issuing process is set out below. It sounds complex, but once navigated, it is easy. If you register with Eventbrite, then when you Login afterwards for another event, the process is easier...
Winter lectures 2023-24
Tickets for winter lectures will be handled by Eventbrite. The link to obtain them will be emailed to members a couple of weeks before the date. Lectures include: In October Lynsey Mclaughlin on Castles - Fortress or Status symbol? November Nick Hill on Browne's...
Winter lectures 2022-23
These have been zoom sessions with some available more widely via youtube. The talks offer an opportunity to get close to some historic buildings even if you cannot meet up with others with a similar interest. Information about other 'historic buildings' talks are...
Winter lecture series 2021 – 2022
Lectures with a link are available on nhbg Youtube channel, you can also browse them on YouTube here. Mary Ash Burnt bricks: a different kind of building material. Available on YouTube Ian Hinton Three Surprising Houses in Hempnall. Available on YouTube Chris King The...
Winter lectures 2019 – 2020
Tim Howson. Georgian Cottages in the Maldon District, Essex Philip Venning. Old Buildings: Myths, Mistakes and Oddities Mark Gardiner. Before the earliest standing timber buildings: archaeological evidence for vernacular houses from the tenth to twelfth centuries....
Winter lectures 2018 – 2019
Thursday 4th October 2018: Frances & Michael Holmes ‘Old Courts and Yards of Norwich.’ Wednesday 14th November 2018: Ian McKechnie ‘History of the sash window’. Friday 7th December 2018: David Bussey ‘Edward Boardman: Changing the face of Norwich’ Thursday 17th...
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Summer Visits 2024
We will be visiting 3 Norfolk Churches, The Old Rectory in Fritton, The Great Hospital, a house in Mount Street, Diss, The houses of North Lopham (and AGM), St Mary's Farm, Tacolneston and The Elizabethan House in...
Summer visits 2023
2023 Summer events are underway, as circulated to members in Spring 2023 Newsletter. Visits include: Cavick House, Wymondham The Thatch Attleborough Billington Mill Planned visits include Manor House, Litcham Wangford Hall, Suffolk Churches day in September. Winter...
Summer events 2019
a Churches Day starting at Beachamwell a day exploring the stones used in Norfolk’s churches, starting at Halvergate church, a walk round the walls of Great Yarmouth; and around Bungay with a local historian prior to lunch and AGM a visit to a C16 timber house and...
Summer events 2018
Three churches of Hempnall benefice-Shelton, Fritton, Bedingham. Hall Farmhouse, Ketteringham. Manor House and St Andrews Church, Northwold Kings Lynn Town Walk and AGM at Thoresby College. Heath Farmhouse, Fakenham. RAF Neatishall Radar Bunker and Cold-War...
Summer events 2017
May 20th Joint Meeting with Lincolnshire Group in Walsingham. May 31st Thetford Town Walk June 3rd Shropham Hall June 24th Aylsham Town Hall and AGM July 15th Central Norfolk Churches: Church & Bishop’s Palace, North Elmham, Brisley. August 6th Thorpe St Andrew...
Summer events 2016
May 17th Wiveton Hall and church June 6th Brisley Old Hall & The Tannery Worthing June 18th Three Waveney churches the Victorians missed. July 2nd Norwich Dissenting chapels followed by AGM July 24th Diss Market Place August 17th Introduction to Limestone and...
Events
Summer visits 2025
The Group will be holding seven site visits in the spring and summer of 2025. We will be visiting a wide variety of vernacular domestic buildngs in Norfolk and also examining several interesting churches - some of which contain Roman building materials. We will also...
May & June 2022 – South Norfolk
In May and June 2022 NHBG visited two houses in south Norfolk, in Bunwell and Fritton. Both were complex buildings with many changes and developments. This included the chimney stack. At both we were provided with excellent teas, special thanks to the owners of the...
NHBG churches day 2022
The annual NHBG Churches day in August visited the ruins of Tivetshall St Mary, the tower of which collapsed into the nave in 1949 (photo above), Tivetshall St Margaret with it's beautiful recently restored 16th century tympaneum on the chancel arch (below), Pulham St...
2022 AGM
The 2022 Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held in Mileham in July. Members were taken round Mileham Castle, houses in the village and farms, by an excellent local team. Mileham Castle is one of the largest motte and bailey castles in Norfolk. It straddles the B1145, a...
2022 events
In April 2022 NHBG finally welcomed Vernacular Architecture Group members to Norfolk. The visit was delayed by two years and eventually happened as a mix of virtual and live visits. The zoom visit consisted of a series of six talks on aspects of vernacular...