J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > East Anglia, Sussex and Yorkshire 1824 > Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner St Nicholas' Church, Yarmouth c.1824

Image 1 of 2
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Nicholas' Church, Yarmouth’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Verso:
St Nicholas’ Church, Yarmouth c.1824
D18189
Turner Bequest CCIX 17a
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘W W[...]’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This previously unidentified study shows St Nicholas’ Church in Yarmouth on the Norfolk coast. Founded in 1101, the church suffered huge damage during a German air raid in the Second World War.1 As a result, the tapering masonry spire depicted here no longer stands. Surrounding Turner’s detailed study are small jottings of Gothic architectural details: arches, portals, tracery, mouldings, and a small rose window. At top right there is also a sketch of buildings and houses at Yarmouth.
The church is shown again on the folio opposite (Tate D18190; Turner Bequest CCIX 18).

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

1
‘Great Yarmouth: St Nicholas’ Church’, Norfolk Heritage Explorer, accessed 7 January 2015, http://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?TNF434-Great-Yarmouth-St-Nicholas'-Church-(Urban-Summary)

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘St Nicholas’ Church, Yarmouth c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-st-nicholas-church-yarmouth-r1181071, accessed 19 April 2024.