The Minster and Priory Church of St Margaret, St Mary Magdalene and all the Virgin Saints was founded as a Benedictine Priory in 1101 by Herbert de Losinga, the first Bishop of Norwich. For 400 years it was the monks’ home as well as the Parish Church for the town. It was always known as St Margaret’s.
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Kings Lynn Minster
4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 3rd 2023
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Norwich Cathedral
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 14th 2023
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Three Out of Four
Only Luton left to explore…
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 10th 2023
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 8th 2023
Trunch Parish Church is the Grade I listed[4] 14th-century church of St Botolph.[5] The church is famous for its carved and painted wood font canopy featuring lower panels with paintings of the twelve Apostles, a cornice including a Latin inscription, and above six arches filled with tracery.[6] Only four such canopies still exist in England.[citation needed] St [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Oct 7th 2023
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The Church of St John the Baptist’s Head, Trimingham
The spireless parish church of Trimingham is called St John the Baptist’s Head. This strange dedication to John the Baptist’s head dates from the medieval period. During this time a life size alabaster head of the saint was kept at the church and pilgrims in this country came to the church to the shrine altar, [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 2nd 2023
