The pretty bell tower of this 1956 church sticks its head up between the lush trees of pleasantly suburban Yarmouth Road. The church is quite a large one for its age. It was designed to be both a parish hall and a church. The red brick and pantiled roof of the old part give it a metroland air, quite in keeping with the Yarmouth Road bungalows and houses of twenty years earlier.
The bell and the dedication are here because of the German bombing of the city of Norwich during the Second World War. The church of St Benedict there was gutted in the Blitz. After the war, the Diocese of Norwich used the war damage reparation money to build a new church here instead. The bell is from the former Norwich church; but if you ignore the tower, the older part of the church looks as if it might actually be a large house, because of its slightly unnerving 1950s domestic windows. It is good to think that the bell which rang out over the medieval tenements of Norwich workers now sounds across the houses of their modern counterparts.
Camouflaged hide on the opposite side of the road to this relatively modern church.
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