[3] There has been a tradition that this took place in 1578 when the street was widened for a visit by Elizabeth I,[2][3] but this is considered to be untrue.

[3] At the beginning of the 20th century the vicar, Rev William Busby, installed items of furniture collected from other churches.

The bottom stage is open to the north and south, providing a passage for processions; the west arch is blocked.

[4] Behind the altar is a painting of the Last Supper attributed to the Renaissance painter Livio Agresti.

Around the church are memorials to local historical personages, including Thomas Rawlins, Joseph Stannard a Norwich School painter of marine-scenes, Walter Nugent Monck founder of the Maddermarket Theatre and Margaret Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, who died in 1564.

[4][5] The church also houses commemorations of several mayors of the City throughout the centuries including the Southerton's, Bubbin and Ralph Segram (died 1472).

He commissioned a rood screen for the church, from which two panels of painted oak are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

[7] Located semi-obscured on the south aisle of the church's west wall is The Layer Monument, a marble polychrome mural monument installed circa 1600 to commemorate the merchant, lawyer and mayor Christopher Layer.

Its four figurines housed in its pilasters, Pax, Gloria, Vanitas and Labor are sculpted in the art-style of Northern Mannerism.

The church also has identifiable associations with early British Freemasonry including a 19th-century headstone in its graveyard which depicts Masonic compasses along with the ancient Greek gnostic symbol of the Ouroboros.

The church houses one of the largest collections of monumental brasses in England, the oldest dating from the middle of the 15th century.

[4] The two-manual organ was made in 1888 by Norman and Beard for St Peter's Church, Lowestoft.