The parish of St Julian within the city of Norwich lies in the most southern part of the medieval city covering a small area of King Street and its surrounding streets. Like most Norwich parishes this tiny acreage was packed with housing largely confined within the city walls and full of courts & yards occupied by the poorer of the community. St Julian parish served the port of Norwich being fronted with wharves alongside the River Wensum, the employment generated by that port being reflected in the occupations of the menfolk listed in this transcriptions. The impact of that employment was to make St Julian parish an "up-market" area of the city with less of the droves of near-poverty weavers characterised in other less fortunate parishes. Norwich's port was largely driven by two principal trades - the export of the output of all those weavers and the movement of the county's agricultural produce. Nowadays the port has declined to nothing, the river populated more by pleasure craft than freight and the area declined with it, King Street's less salubrious status as Norwich's "red-light" district has been transformed in recent times with new housing reviving the area and improved river crossings accessing the rail station making it once again an attractive part of the city in which to live.

St Julian's church sits tucked into its eponymous Alley just off King Street. The dedication comes from Julian of Norwich an anchoress who lived within a hermitage here for many years during the latter part of the 14th century and whose work "Revelations of Divine Love" is still a studied text to this day. Sadly the port area of Norwich came under intense bombing during the 2nd World War and St Julian's church was badly damaged, it sat in a semi-derelict state until rebuilding in 1953 returned the church to worship. What remains of the original church shows a very ancient building, it had a round tower characteristic of early Norfolk churches of which only a stump remains. Pre-Conquest style Anglo-Saxon windows remain in the northern wall. The Norman doorway which now graces the church is, sadly, the only remaining part of the equally damaged church of St Michael at Thorn reset here during the rebuilding. It is still clear from what remains that St Julian was one of the oldest churches extant within the city and probably dates from the 11th century. Like many urban churches St Julian is slightly crowded by surrounding buildings making for a challenge for the photographer, parking is available nearby, along Rouen Road, making an extended visit possible.