Adam and Eve, Bishopgate, Norwich - a photo on Flickriver

            People have been quenching their thirst on this site for more than a thousand years, a Saxon well still exists beneath the lower bar floor. 
As an alehouse, the pub is first recorded in 1249, when it was being used by workman building the cathedral. Labour seems to have been cheap, they were paid in bread and ale. The Benedictine monks who owned the building also gave its ale to patients at the nearby historic Great Hospital, for medicinal purposes. 
In the 14th. and 15th. centuries, the Adam and Eve grew when living accommodation and the Flemish gables were added. 
It witnessed bitter battles during Kett’s Rebellion in 1549, when an army of insurgents briefly took the city. The ghost of Lord Sheffield, hacked to death nearby on 1st. August by rebels is still reputed to haunt the building. So, too are spectres of some of the French-speaking medieval monks who lived and worked here. Somewhere below you, one monk is believed to be buried. In 1578, Queen Elizabeth 1 passed in procession outside, to attend a firelit pageant on the river during her only visit to the city. 
The 19th. century saw a brutal murder just yards away in the grounds of the Great Hospital. The killer confessed and was executed in 1800, in one of the first private hangings at Norwich Castle.
There was also the notorious murderer James Rush. He was actually a customer and is reputed to have plotted his lurid crime in the inn. Rush spent his last night in the dungeons of Norwich Castle before thousands watched him hanged, in 1849, for the murders of Isaac Jeremy, Recorder of Norwich, and his son. 
One of the pub’s best-known landladies was Mrs. Howes, who kept the pub between 1845 and 1860. She had a wherry of the same name and, famously, transported sand from Yarmouth, selling it to local pubs for their floors. The trade made her very popular because it was not unknown for a bit of contraband to find its way into the cargo.
The pub is widely claimed to be the oldest pub in the city and it was the last pub in Norwich to serve ale straight from the barrel, It did so until 1971 when a bar was finally installed.

The pub gained Grade: II listed building status on 5th. June 1972.
   

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Taken on: November 28, 2020

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