Norwood, South Australia

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Before British colonisation of South Australia and subsequent European settlement, Norwood was inhabited by one of the groups who later collectively became known as the Kaurna peoples.{{cite book|title=Colonialism and its Aftermath: A history of Aboriginal South Australia|chapter-url=https://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/product.php?productid=1385|publisher=Wakefield Press|isbn= 9781743054994| date=2017| editor1-first=Peggy| editor1-last=Brock|editor2-first=Tom|editor2-last=Gara|chapter=4. Early encounters on the Adelaide Plains and Encounter Bay |first1=Christine |last1=Lockwood|pages=65–81}}{{cite web | title=Map of Indigenous Australia | website=AIATSIS|first= David R.|last= Horton|date=1996 |author-link= David Horton (writer)| url=https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/map-indigenous-australia | access-date=16 August 2021}}

Early settler Edward Stephens, who arrived in the colony in 1839, wrote: "Norwood and Kent Town were unknown then. The site of the present Norwood was then a magnificent gum forest, with an undergrowth of kangaroo grass, too high in places for a man to see over; in fact persons lost their way in going from Adelaide to Kensington in those days, through attempting a short or near cut across the country".{{cite web | title=Second Creek at Norwood | website=SA Memory|author=Stephens, Edward |publisher= State Library of South Australia| url=https://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?c=2705 | access-date=16 August 2021|others=Extracted from Stephens, Edward. The aborigines of Australia: being personal recollections of those tribes which once inhabited the Adelaide Plains of South Australia, in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, V.XXIII, 1889.}}

Norwood is named after Norwood, then a village south of London. The new village east of Adelaide was first laid out in 1847.{{cite web|url=http://www.npsp.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1359 |title=The History of Kensington & Norwood|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720103559/http://www.npsp.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1359 |archive-date=20 July 2008 }} The former City of Kensington and Norwood was the first outside of the City of Adelaide to receive the right to set up their own municipal corporation. The charter of the town was given on 7 July 1853 by the Governor, Sir Henry Young.{{cite web | title=History of the Norwood Electorate | website=Steven Marshall| date=10 April 2013 | url=http://stevenmarshall.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=681:history-of-the-norwood-electorate-&catid=11:norwood-electorate&Itemid=12 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410062441/http://stevenmarshall.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=681:history-of-the-norwood-electorate-&catid=11:norwood-electorate&Itemid=12 | archive-date=10 April 2013 | url-status=dead }}

{{further|Trams in Adelaide}}

The first permanent street-based public transport service in Adelaide was provided in Norwood and Kensington, and these suburbs were also the first to be served by electric trams. The Adelaide and Suburban Tramway Company, the first horse-drawn tram company, started laying tracks from the City of Adelaide to Norwood and Kensington in 1877, with the first trams running in June 1878. The Adelaide and Suburban Tramway Company was acquired by the Municipal Tramways Trust, and the Kensington line converted to an electric tramway in 1909. The interim Kensington terminus was at The Parade/Gurrs Road intersection, before being extended, as part of the network of Adelaide trams, to serve the recently created reserve up The Parade at Kensington Gardens.{{cite web | title=The Eastern Lines | website=Tramway Museum, St Kilda | date=17 March 1956 | url=https://www.trammuseumadelaide.com/the-eastern-lines | access-date=20 September 2020}}

Until 1952, the service was linked in with the other eastern suburbs tramlines and terminated in the city, but in that year it was "through routed" with trams running to Henley Beach. The tramway closed in February 1957.

In February 1951 the Jubilee Cycling Arena, aka Norwood Velodrome, opened on Osmond Terrace. It was a steeply banked concrete velodrome, with six laps to the mile, designed by Eddie Smith. During the summer, there were races held every Friday night. It became a popular spot for keen cyclists,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164351963 |title=Cycling |newspaper=Victor Harbor Times |volume=44 |issue=2170 |location=South Australia |date=26 November 1954 |access-date=20 September 2020 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} and was also used as a venue for square dancing in the 1950s.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134288768 |title=The Odd spot |newspaper=The News (Adelaide) |volume=60 |issue=9,266 |location=South Australia |date=22 April 1953 |access-date=20 September 2020 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}

In 1965 over {{AUD|11,000}} was raised by cyclists of the Norwood Cycling Club to re-concrete the track.{{cite web | title=Club History - Norwood Cycling Club | website=Norwood Cycling Club | date=10 March 2014 | url=http://www.norwoodcc.com.au/about/club-history/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812204124/http://www.norwoodcc.com.au/about/club-history/ | archive-date=12 August 2020 | url-status=dead | access-date=15 August 2021}}

In 1970, residents organised protests and a green ban in order to stop the destruction of the Norwood Velodrome for high-rise apartments.{{Cite book|title=Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers' Federation|last=Burgmann|first=Verity and Meredith|year=1998|pages=52}} However, Norwood Council sold the velodrome and surrounding land to real estate developers in 1981.

The suburb consists of four segments, being divided into north and south by the major thoroughfare of The Parade and east and west by Osmond Terrace. It is bounded on the south by Kensington Road on the north by Magill Road, on the east by Portrush Road and on the west by Fullarton Road. It is a leafy suburb, with streets lined with plane trees.

First Creek and Second Creek once flowed through the suburb, but First Creek is only visible between Edward Street and Birrell Street,{{cite web | title=Norwood · South Australia 5067, Australia | website=Norwood · South Australia 5067, Australia | url=https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Norwood+SA+5067/@-34.9261656,138.6347696,379m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x6ab0cb687046538f:0x5033654628ebb20!8m2!3d-34.9213881!4d138.632203 | access-date=16 August 2021}} and both creeks are mostly underground in concrete tunnels.

Osmond Terrace is a street with a wide grass, median strip featuring a prominent war memorial commemorating ANZAC soldiers who fought in the first and second World Wars, created by architect H.F.R. Culley.{{cite web | title=Norwood War Memorial, Norwood, South Australia, Australia | website=Virtual War Memorial | url=https://vwma.org.au/explore/memorials/619 | access-date=15 August 2021}}{{cite web | title=Norwood War Memorial | website=Monument Australia | date=2 June 1923 | url=https://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/culture/display/51354-norwood-war-memorial | access-date=15 August 2021}} The median strip also features sculptures from local artists,{{cite web | title=Public Art Map | website=City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters | url=https://www.npsp.sa.gov.au/culture_and_lifestyle/the_arts/public_art_map | access-date=15 August 2021}} and rose gardens. There is a sculpture of the first Italian to arrive in the new colony of South Australia in 1839, Antonio Giannoni (1814–1883), who worked as a cab driver in Norwood, and whose son, Peter Gannoni, became mayor in 1920.{{cite web | title=Italians | website=SA History Hub |first=Desmond |last= O' Connor|publisher=History Trust of South Australia| date=15 August 2014 | url=https://sahistoryhub.history.sa.gov.au/subjects/italians | access-date=15 August 2021| quote=This is a revised version of an entry first published in The Wakefield companion to South Australian history, edited by Wilfrid Prest, Kerrie Round and Carol Fort (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2001). Revised by the author and edited lightly. }}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article53632435 |title=Kensington and Norwood. |newspaper=South Australian Register |volume=LVIII |issue=14,676 |location=South Australia |date=25 November 1893 |access-date=15 August 2021 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}} The memorial bust, created by Wandrina Douglas-Boers, was unveiled in November 1993.{{cite web | title=Antonio Giannoni | website=Monument Australia | url=https://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/settlement/display/111786-antonio-giannoni | access-date=15 August 2021}}

One of the most visible landmarks in Norwood is the Clayton Wesley Uniting Church, at the eastern end of The Parade, on the north-east corner of Portrush Road. Actually located in Beulah Park, the church and spire that are visible along the road from Norwood was built in 1883, although an earlier building (still behind the present church) was built in 1856.{{cite web | title=History | website=Clayton Wesley Uniting Church | url=https://claytonwesley.org.au/community/church/history/ | access-date=16 August 2021}} The Norwood Town Hall is on the north-western corner of The Parade and George Street.

{{Historical population

|2001|5358

|2006|5704

|2011|5802

|2016|5953

|2021|6354}}

Norwood attracted many European migrants post-World War II, in particular Italians.{{cite journal | last=Burnley | first=I. H. | title=Immigrant Absorption in the Australian City, 1947-1971 | journal=The International Migration Review | publisher=Center for Migration Studies of New York, Inc., Wiley | volume=9 | issue=3 | year=1975 | issn=0197-9183 | jstor=3002248 | pages=331| doi=10.2307/3002248 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/3002248 | access-date=15 August 2021}} In the 2016 Australian census, 4.1% of the population spoke Italian at home, with Greek coming a close second at 3%.{{Census 2006 AUS |id =SSC42191 |name=Norwood (State Suburb) |accessdate=4 September 2015| quick=on}} By the 2016 Australian census, the top language other than English spoken at home was Mandarin Chinese, at 3.6%, while 3.2% of the population spoke Italian and 2.8% Greek.{{Census 2016 AUS|id= SSC41044|name= Norwood (State Suburb) |accessdate=8 August 2019|quick=on}}

In 2016, there were 5,953 people living in the suburb, with a median income of {{AUD|1,485}} per week. The top ancestries in 2016 were English, at 26.3% and Australian, at 17%. Only 64.4% were born in Australia, while 43.2% had both parents born in Australia.

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{{main|Norwood Oval}}

Norwood Oval, {{as of|lc=lc=yes|2021}} known as the Coopers Stadium, on The Parade, is home to the Norwood Redlegs, a South Australian National Football League (Australian Rules Football) team It also hosts some AFL Women's (national league) matches, including the Adelaide Crows. It is the former home of Adelaide Bite, an Australian Baseball League team .{{cite web | title=Norwood Oval (Coopers Stadium) | website=Austadiums | date=26 August 2005 | url=https://www.austadiums.com/stadiums/norwood-oval | access-date=15 August 2021}}

The Norwood Cycling Club (NCC) is the largest cycling club in South Australia, with 380 members {{as of|lc=yes|2021}},{{cite web | title=Club History | website=Norwood Cycling Club | url=https://www.norwoodcc.com.au/clubhistory | access-date=15 August 2021}} and its 1883 foundation date makes it the oldest such club in the southern hemisphere. It was founded as the Norwood Cycle and Motor Club,{{cite web | title=AdelaideAZ | website=AdelaideAZ | url=https://adelaideaz.com/articles/norwood-cycling-club--southern-hemisphere-s-oldest-and-still-state-s-biggest-since-1883 | access-date=15 August 2021}} and its official opening was at Kensington Oval, a bit further up The Parade in the suburb of Kensington, on 4 February 1884. Sir Edwin Smith was a foundation member and patron of the club, which became incorporated in 1918, after it had bought land and built clubrooms at Port Noarlunga. After the Jubilee Cycling Arena was built in Norwood in 1951, the club's members used to race there, and in 1965 the club raised money to concrete the track. Its clubrooms opened in George Street in 1975.

Former members of the club include many champions, including Jack Bobridge, Luke Roberts, Tim Roe, Alexis Rhodes, Tiffany Cromwell, Patrick Jonker, Michael Turtur, David Solari (son of Nino Solari{{cite web | last=Migliaccio | first=Val | title=Tributes flow for cycling legend Solari | work=The Advertiser|location=Adelaide| date=20 June 2018 | url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/tour-de-france-winner-cadel-evans-and-parisroubaix-champ-stuart-ogrady-have-led-the-tributes-to-nino-solari/news-story/5f0d500e908caaa7ec91d6694936e178 | access-date=15 August 2021}}), Wayne McCarney, Charlie Walsh and Jay Sweet.

Each year the club promotes four major cycling events:

• the Noarlunga Road race (since 1919);
• the Burra 2-day Classic;
• the Tour of the Riverland (established 1975); and
• the AlphutteClassic Handicap.

NCC is affiliated with Cycling SA, which is in turn affiliated with the national parent body of the state bodies, Cycling Australia.

Norwood is known for its many restaurants{{cite web | title=Restaurants & Cafes | website=The Parade | url=https://www.theparadenorwood.com/category/53_restaurants_and_cafes | access-date=15 August 2021}}{{cite web | title=Norwood Restaurants - Adelaide | website=WeekendNotes | url=https://www.weekendnotes.com/adelaide/norwood/restaurants/ | language=af | access-date=15 August 2021}} and shops selling fashion and goods of all kinds.{{cite web | title=Shop | website=The Parade | url=https://www.theparadenorwood.com/shop | access-date=15 August 2021}}{{cite web | title=Norwood | website=South Australia | date=21 January 2021 | url=https://southaustralia.com/destinations/adelaide/places/norwood |publisher= South Australian Tourism Commission| access-date=15 August 2021}} It also plays host to a variety of events and festivals throughout the year.{{cite web | title=Culture & Lifestyle | website=City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters | url=https://www.npsp.sa.gov.au/culture_and_lifestyle | access-date=15 August 2021}}

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The Odeon Theatre is on the corner of The Parade and Queen Street. Originally the Star Theatre, it was designed as a picture theatre by Sydney architects Kaberry and Chard{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64112058 |title=Norwood Star Theatre. |newspaper=The Register (Adelaide) |volume=LXXXVIII |issue=25,705 |location=South Australia |date=17 May 1923 |access-date=15 February 2024 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}} (who also designed the Thebarton Theatre, the Athenium Theatre in Junee, New South Wales,{{cite NSW SHR|5053909|Athenium Theatre|hr=01687|access-date=15 February 2024 }} and many other cinemas across Australia{{cite web |website= Thebarton Theatre |title=Thebarton Theatre: History |url= https://thebartontheatre.com.au/history/ | access-date=19 December 2022}}) in association with local supervising architect Chris A. Smith. It was officially opened by Norwood mayor William Essery (Snr) on Wednesday 16 May 1923,{{cite thesis | title=Entertaining the Classes: An archaeological investigation of historic cinemas in Metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia, and their development in relation to social class, 1896-1949| first= Antoinette |last=Hennessy|date=2016|type=MA |publisher=Flinders University | url=https://theses.flinders.edu.au/view/a38845ec-db63-4aa2-9e02-416a8164a0ec/1 | access-date=18 December 2022| page=97}}[https://flex.flinders.edu.au/file/a38845ec-db63-4aa2-9e02-416a8164a0ec/1/ThesisHennessy2013.pdf PDF] with its entrance on The Parade. The operator was D. Clifford Theatres (formerly Star Theatres) by 1946. Later it was taken over by Greater Union Cinemas and renamed the Odeon Theatre (also known as Odeon Norwood). It closed as a cinema, reopening in 1986 as a live theatre specialising in children's productions. The entrance was moved around the corner onto Queen Street, and the original foyer converted into restaurant,{{cite web | title=Odeon Norwood in Adelaide, AU | website=Cinema Treasures | date=17 February 2018 | url=http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/35468 | access-date=29 July 2020}} {{as of|lc=yes|2024}} St Louis dessert bar.{{cite web | title=Locations - Crafted European Desserts | website=St. Louis | date=28 November 2021 | url=https://www.st-louis.com.au/locations |access-date=15 February 2024 }}

{{as of|February 2024}}, the Odeon is home to Australian Dance Theatre, which offers dance classes to adults. The venue is hired out for various performing arts events,{{cite web | title=The Odeon Theatre - Australian Dance Theatre | website=The Parade | url=https://www.theparadenorwood.com/listing/551_the_odeon_theatre__australian_dance_theatre | access-date=15 February 2024}} such as the Adelaide Festival,{{cite web | title=Odeon Theatre | website=Adelaide Festival | url=https://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/venues/odeon-theatre/ | access-date=29 July 2020}} Adelaide Fringe{{cite web | title=Events located at The Odeon Theatre| website=FringeVault | url=http://fringevault.com.au/venues/1614 | access-date=29 July 2020}} and State Theatre Company of South Australia performances.{{cite web | last=Cornelius | first=Patricia|title=In the club | website=State Theatre Company | date=11 December 2018 | url=https://statetheatrecompany.com.au/shows/in-the-club/ | access-date=29 July 2020}}

===Pubs===

Historic pubs in Norwood include:

• Bath Hotel, on the southeast corner of the Parade and Queen Street,{{cite web | title=Home | website=The Bath Hotel | date=5 March 2019 | url=http://www.bathhotel.com.au/ | access-date=3 June 2024}} was designed by Thomas English and built around 1881{{cite web | title=Design for proposed new Bath Hotel, the Parade, Norwood | website=SA Memory| publisher= State Library of South Australia | date=12 November 2007 | url=https://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?c=3909 | access-date=17 June 2024}} to 1883. It replaced two earlier buildings, the original having been licensed in 1857 and rebuilt after a fire in 1877. A balcony on the Parade facade was removed in 1960. It was locally heritage-listed in August 2000;{{cite web | title= 232B The Parade Norwood | website=SA Heritage Places Database Search | url=https://maps.sa.gov.au/heritagesearch/HeritageItem.aspx?p_heritageno=5957 | access-date=17 June 2024}} and underwent a major renovation in 2006.

• The Colonist, formerly known as The Colonist Tavern and Old Colonist Hotel, was first licensed in 1851, but the present building on the south-western corner of the Parade and Sydenham Road was only constructed around 1883, when it was built as a single-storey building.{{cite web| url=https://data.environment.sa.gov.au/Content/heritage-surveys/2-Kensington-Norwood-Heritage-Review-Vol-5-S-R-1995.pdf|title=Heritage Survey: Kensington & Norwood| author=Mark Butcher Architects |p=455,487| date=1994}} It underwent significant refurbishments in the 1870s, and an upper storey was constructed in 1911.{{cite web | title=Exploring South Australia's past, a pint at a time | website=Liquid History | date=24 June 2020| first=Craig| last=Hill | url=http://www.liquidhistory.com.au/ColonistStory.html#:~:text=The%20Old%20Colonist%20Inn%2C%20now,expand%20outwards%20rather%20than%20upwards | access-date=17 June 2024}} It was locally heritage-listed in August 2000.{{cite web | title=44 The Parade Norwood | website=SA Heritage Places Database Search | url=https://maps.sa.gov.au/heritagesearch/HeritageItem.aspx?p_heritageno=5933 | access-date=17 June 2024}}

• Norwood Hotel, situated on the northeast corner of the Parade and Osmond Terrace,{{cite web | title=Home | website=Norwood Hotel, Norwood, SA | url=https://www.thenorwood.com.au/ | access-date=3 June 2024}} was designed by Charles Howard Marryat and completed in 1884,{{cite web | title=Building Details: Norwood Hotel | website=Architects of South Australia| publisher= University of South Australia | url=https://architectsdatabase.unisa.edu.au/build_full.asp?B_ID=1271 | access-date=17 June 2024}} built by C.H.F. Boehm. Considered too elaborate at that time, it was described in a 1984 heritage assessment as an "imposing and solid example of largely intact high Victorian architecture",{{cite web| url=https://data.environment.sa.gov.au/Content/heritage-surveys/2-Kensington-Norwood-Heritage-Survey-Stage-2-1985.pdf| first1= John|last1= Dallwitz | first2= Susan |last2=Marsden| first3= Daniel |last3= Manning| title= Kensington and Norwood Heritage Survey - Stage 2 (South Australia). Part One : General Report|date=1985| p=15,etc. |others=Prepared for the City of Kensington and Norwood and the Heritage Conservation Branch of the Department of Environment and Planning, by John Dallwitz and Susan Marsden of Heritage Investigations, with Council's Honorary Historian, Daniel Manning, assisted by Rima D'Arcy, Margaret Mary Vervoorn and Peter Villis. }} and was heritage-listed on the South Australian Heritage Register in September 1990.{{cite web | title=97 The Parade Norwood | website=SA Heritage Places Database Search | url=https://maps.sa.gov.au/heritagesearch/HeritageItem.aspx?p_heritageno=6024 | access-date=17 June 2024}} An earlier building, known as the Norwood Arms, was a single-storey building built in 1848, and the first pub in Norwood. The first meeting of the Kensington and Norwood Council was held in it.

• The Republic, formerly the Oriental Hotel, on the southwest corner of Osmond Terrace and Magill Road,{{cite web | last=Dillon | first=Meagan | title=Inside Norwood's newest hotel | website= Adelaide Now | date=10 December 2013 | url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/messenger/east-hills/republic-is-norwoods-newest-hotel-taking-over-the-oriental-hotel-site/news-story/e5edb819aaa0c2806caeaff982af9e06?nk=ca3c5dd79edb2aa81cb58bd9b8763446-1717398901 | access-date=3 June 2024}} locally heritage-listed in August 2000{{cite web | title= 120 Magill Road Norwood | website=SA Heritage Places Database Search | url=https://maps.sa.gov.au/heritagesearch/HeritageItem.aspx?p_heritageno=6084 | access-date=17 June 2024}}

• Robin Hood Hotel, 315 Portrush Road, present building built 1882 to replace an earlier one licensed in 1845;{{cite web| url=https://data.environment.sa.gov.au/Content/heritage-surveys/2-Kensington-Norwood-Heritage-Review-Vol-4-L-R-1995.pdf| author= Mark Butcher Architects| p=365| title=Heritage Survey Kensington & Norwood: L-R| date=1994}} locally heritage-listed in August 2000{{cite web | title=315 Portrush Road Norwood | website=SA Heritage Places Database Search | url=https://maps.sa.gov.au/heritagesearch/HeritageItem.aspx?p_heritageno=5867 | access-date=17 June 2024}}

• Norwood Town Hall was heritage-listed on the SA Heritage Register in November 1985.{{cite web | title=175 The Parade Norwood| website=The South Australia Heritage Places database | url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/heritagesearch/HeritageItem.aspx?p_heritageno=6025 | access-date=16 August 2021}}
• Norwood Library is located on 110 The Parade, near the corner of Osmond Terrace, in the old Kensington and Norwood Institute building,{{cite web | title=Kensington and Norwood | website=Institutes of South Australia | date= 2021 | url=https://institutessa.com/?page_id=985 | access-date=4 January 2022}} which was heritage-listed in 1981 on the South Australian Heritage Register.{{cite web | title=110 The Parade Norwood| website= The South Australia Heritage Places database | url=https://maps.sa.gov.au/heritagesearch/HeritageItem.aspx?p_heritageno=6066 | access-date=4 January 2022}} The institute, designed by government architect W. H. Abbott free of charge, and built in 1876, was one of many mechanics' institutes in Australia established during the 19th century. It was largely funded by its founding president, Sir Edwin Smith. In 1882 its collection, available for loan by subscriptions paid by members, was enhanced by books acquired from the Magill Institute after its demise. In 1883 extensions were added to the building, including a hall and reading room, and in 1895 it also had a musical program. In 1914 the library held 13,744 volumes, and 190 periodicals and newspapers, and an art school was opened in the building. In the 1950s the Institute supported the free lending of books, but fell into debt to the council. In 1977 the City of Kensington and Norwood acquired the building, and carried out renovations, retaining the library. In 1986 the institute was dissolved, setting up a Friends of the Library group as the building becoming the responsibility of the council. The building was refurbished in period style and became Norwood Library.
• The former Norwood Baptist Church, on the south-eastern corner of Church Avenue and The Parade (no. 134), designed by architect James Cumming, built in 1869 by Charles Farr and opened in January 1870,{{cite web | title=Baptist Church, Norwood | website=State Library of South Australia| format=Photo + text | url=https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+8033 | access-date=16 August 2021}} was heritage-listed on the SA Heritage Register in 1982.{{cite web | title=134 The Parade Norwood| website=The South Australia Heritage Places database | url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/heritagesearch/HeritageItem.aspx?p_heritageno=6050 | access-date=16 August 2021}} Its classical style was particularly influenced by the Metropolitan Tabernacle in Newington Butts in London, where influential Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon used to preach. The building contains one of the most significant church organs in South Australia, installed in 1882. Its use as a church ceased and for some time it housed the Mary Martin Bookshop,{{cite web | title=Former Baptist Church The Parade, Norwood, South Australia | website=Organ Historical Trust of Australia | date=10 August 2011 | url=https://www.ohta.org.au/organs/organs/NorwoodBaptist.html| first=John|last= Maidment | access-date=16 August 2021}} but that closed in the 2010s and has since been used as a restaurant.

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Saint Ignatius Church is a Catholic parish church, built after land at the north-eastern corner of William and Queen Streets was purchased by the Society of Jesus (more commonly referred to as Jesuits) in 1869 and the church built in Italianate style and opened in August 1870.{{cite web | title=About Us| website=Saint Ignatius Catholic Parish – Norwood South Australia | url=https://www.norwoodparish.org.au/about-us/ | access-date=15 August 2021}}

Saint Bartholomew's on Beulah Road in Norwood, also known as St Bart's Norwood, is "an Anglican church in the evangelical tradition that participates as a member of the Anglican Communion".{{cite web | title=Classes | website=St Bart's Norwood | date=14 January 2022 | url=https://stbarts.asn.au/what-we-believe | access-date=17 February 2022| url-status= live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217073301/https://stbarts.asn.au/what-we-believe| archive-date= 17 February 2022}} It was for some years part of the Grace Anglican Network (created by St Bart's in 2016{{cite web | title=Grace Brings Change to Adelaide | website=The Living Church | date=10 June 2016 | url=https://livingchurch.org/2016/06/10/grace-brings-change-adelaide/ | access-date=17 February 2022| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217054301/https://livingchurch.org/2016/06/10/grace-brings-change-adelaide/| archive-date=17 February 2022}}) with St Matthew's Church, Marryatville,{{cite web | title=Make Jesus Known - Grace Anglican Network | website=Grace Anglican Network | date=2 May 2020 | url=https://gracenetwork.asn.au/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303130404/https://gracenetwork.asn.au/ | archive-date=3 March 2021 | url-status=dead | access-date=17 February 2022}} but {{as of|lc=yes|February 2022}} is again independent.{{cite web | title=St Bart's Norwood | website=St Bart's Norwood | date=14 January 2022 | url=https://stbarts.asn.au/ | access-date=17 February 2022}}

The Unitarian Meeting House at 99 Osmond Terrace is an independent, self-governed church "affiliated with the worldwide Unitarian and Unitarian-Universalist free church movements".{{cite web | title=Home page | website=SA Unitarians| url=https://unitariansa.org.au/ | access-date=16 August 2021}}

• Norwood Primary School, Osmond Terrace,{{cite web | title=Home | website=Norwood Primary School | url=http://www.norwoodps.sa.edu.au/ | access-date=15 August 2021}} which was designed and built by the same architect and builder as the Norwood Baptist Church, architect James Cumming and builder Charles Farr, as Norwood Public School in 1871.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39268987 |title=Building Improvements for 1871 |newspaper=South Australian Register |volume=XXXVII |issue=7842 |location=South Australia |date=4 January 1872 |access-date=15 August 2021 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Saint Ignatius' College, junior campus

• The upper primary campus of St Joseph's Memorial School, catering for children, William Street, caters for Year 2 to Year 6 (junior primary, preschool to Year 1, is in Bridge Street, Kensington).{{cite web | title=Our History | website=St Joseph's Memorial School | url=https://www.sjms.catholic.edu.au/our-school/about-us/our-history | access-date=20 December 2023}}

Several Adelaide Metro bus routes serve the suburb. These are the main routes running through or adjacent to Norwood {{as of|lc=yes|2020}}:{{cite web | title=Search Results [Norwood] | website=Adelaide Metro | date=12 February 2020 | url=https://www.adelaidemetro.com.au/search_metro/results?q=Norwood&sa=Search | access-date=20 September 2020}}

• H30, H33: Magill Road
• H20, H21, H22, H23, H24, N22: The Parade
• 140, 141,142: Kensington Road
• 300: Suburban Connector (Portrush Road)

In addition to these, there are a number of school services running during term-time, and special services to Adelaide Oval for big events.

• Reginald Blundell, politician{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last= Jaensch |first= Dean

|year=1979|id=A070332b|title= Blundell, Reginald Pole (1871 - 1945) |access-date=15 August 2021 }}

• C.J. Dennis, writer
• Bill Denny, politician
• Don Dunstan, former Premier of South Australia{{cite web | title=Dunstan Biography | website=Flinders University | date=22 January 2010 | url=http://www.lib.flinders.edu.au/resources/collection/special/dunstan/dunstbiog.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100122045803/http://www.lib.flinders.edu.au/resources/collection/special/dunstan/dunstbiog.html | archive-date=22 January 2010 | url-status=dead }}
• Antonio Giannoni, first Italian settler in South Australia
• May Gibbs, writer{{cite web | title=Signs, Walks & Trails | website=City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters | url=https://www.npsp.sa.gov.au/culture_and_lifestyle/cultural_heritage/signs_walks_and_trails | access-date=15 August 2021}}
• Max Harris, poet
• Lionel Hill, politician
• Mary Anne Lockwood (1858–1938), temperance worker and suffragist{{cite book |last1=Cherrington |first1=Ernest Hurst |title=Standard encyclopedia of the alcohol problem. Vol IV. Kansas-Newton |date=1928 |via=Internet Archive |publisher=American Issue Publishing Co. |location=Westerville, Ohio |url=https://archive.org/details/standardencyclop04cher/page/1558 |page=1558 |access-date=11 August 2024 |chapter=LOCKWOOD, MARY ANNE}}
• Mary MacKillop, Australia's first beatified saint
• Mary Martin, bookseller
• Sir Edwin Thomas Smith
• Catherine Helen Spence, women's rights campaigner{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208017145 |title=Death of Miss Spence |newspaper=The Evening Journal (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=4 April 1910 |access-date=15 August 2021 |page=2 |via=Trove }}
• Alexander Tolmer, former police officer and police commissioner{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}
• Stanley Price Weir, public servant and Australian Army officer

• Electoral district of Norwood
• List of Adelaide suburbs
• Norwood Swimming Pool (in neighbouring Kensington)
• Woodroofe, a soft drink company

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• {{official website|https://www.npsp.sa.gov.au/|Norwood Payneham & St Peters Council}}

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