2-854-314 - Historic England Archive/Heritage Images

St Bartholomew's Church, St Bartholomew's Close, Heigham, Norwich, Norfolk, 1942. St Bartholomew's Church viewed from the south showing bomb damage. The medieval church of St Bartholomew was destroyed in a German bombing raid on the 27th April 1942. The raid was the first Baedeker Raid on the city of Norwich. The Baedeker raids or Baedeker Blitz was a series of air raids undertaken by the Luftwaffe in a tit for tat exchange initiated by the RAF bombing of Lubeck in March 1942. The name derives from the popular pre-war tourist books known as Baedeker Guides, which listed British sites of cultural or historic interest. Only the church tower now remains.