A historical burial ground in Norwich will remain undisturbed thanks to the careful design of a new city centre development.
After the demolition of the old Thorndick and Dawson print works on Pottergate, the site is ready to be turned into 18 luxury flats.
But because part of the site includes an 18th century Baptist chapel and associated cemetery, Jetspark, the company behind the scheme, is making sure the sites archaeological history remains as intact as possible.
When the flats go up, the area where the chapel and cemetery once stood will be paved over, meaning the valuable archaeology remain untouched.
Anthony Pettifor on behalf of Jetspark, promised: "There is nothing that will have to be removed. It was known that there was a Baptist chapel and an early cemetery on the sit and the design accounts for that. It is a statutory obligation that we have to advertise the fact
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