Editing Julian of Norwich (section)

=== St Julian's Church ===
There were no hermits or anchorites in Norwich from 1312 until the emergence of Julian in the 1370s.{{sfn|Crampton|1994|p=11}} St Julian's Church, located off King Street in the south of Norwich city centre, holds regular [[Church service|services]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/2635/ |title=Norwich: St Julian |website=A Church Near You |publisher=[[Church of England]] |access-date=10 February 2019 |archive-date=12 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212013207/https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/2635/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The building, which has a [[round-tower church|round tower]], is one of the 31 parish churches from a total of 58 that once existed in Norwich during the [[England in the Middle Ages|Middle Ages]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://norwichmedievalchurches.org/ |title=Welcome |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=The Medieval Churches of Norwich: City, Community & Architecture |access-date=4 September 2019 |archive-date=7 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807155218/https://norwichmedievalchurches.org/ |url-status=live}}</ref> of which 36 had an anchorite cell.{{sfn|Upjohn|Groves|2018|p=12}}

[[File:Entrance to Mother Julian's cell.jpg|alt=Entrance to Mother Julian's cell|thumb|The entrance to the modern cell]]
The cell did not remain empty after Julian's death. In 1428 Julian(a) Lampett (or Lampit) moved in when [[Edith Wilton]] was the prioress responsible for the church,<ref>{{Cite ODNB |id=107180 |title=Wilton, Edith (d. 1430), prioress of Carrow |last=Marilyn |first=Oliva}}</ref> and remained in the cell until 1478 when [[Margaret Pygot]] was prioress.<ref>{{Cite ODNB |id=105620 |title=Pygot, Margaret (d. in or after 1474), prioress of Carrow |last=Marilyn |first=Oliva}}</ref> The cell continued to be used by anchorites until the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]] in the 1530s, when it was demolished and the church stripped of its [[rood screen]] and statues. No [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]] was appointed from then until 1581.{{sfn|Upjohn|Groves|2018|p=15}}

By 1845 St Julian's was in a poor state of repair and the east wall collapsed that year. After an appeal for funds, the church was [[Victorian restoration|restored]].{{sfn|Upjohn|Groves|2018|pp=17{{ndash}}18}}{{refn|1=According to the author Sheila Upjohn and the church historian Nicholas Groves, "The restoration of the church, when [the rector] was finally forced to take action after half a century of neglect, was ruthless to the point of vandalism."{{sfn|Upjohn|Groves|2018|p=18}}|group=note}} The church underwent further restoration during the first half of the 20th century,{{sfn|Upjohn|Groves|2018|p=27}} but was destroyed during the [[Norwich Blitz]] of June 1942 when the tower received a direct hit. After the war, the church was rebuilt. It now appears largely as it was before its destruction, although its tower is much reduced in height and a chapel has been built in place of the long-lost anchorite cell.{{sfn|Upjohn|Groves|2018|pp=28{{ndash}}30}}