An engraved, limestone memorial in the floor of Norwich Cathedral reads “Remember Bishop Herbert St Barbe Holland, Dean of Norwich 1946-1952”. His ashes and those of his wife Mellie, are interred here.
Bishop Holland is better known to New Zealand Anglicans as the Bishop of Wellington, New Zealand from 1936 to 1946. Holland had come from ministry in Warwick, England to be Bishop of Wellington. Ill health prompted his return to England, where, according to the Archbishop’s Charge to the 1949 General Synod, “he has found such a happy and useful sphere of work in Deanery of Norwich, where less exhausting demands are made in his physical energy …”
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It is not a brass plaque, it is a small limestone ledgerstone. As a guide there I discovered it just about under the Niche under the Cathedra, in the apse.
Thank you Michele and great to hear from someone who has first hand knowledge of Norwich Cathedral. I have updated the entry accordingly.