The Chapel of St Mary on the Mount, known as the Red Mount Chapel, was built between 1483-85 by Robert Curraunt for William Spynke, the Benedictine prior of Lynn. It was for use by pilgrims travelling to the shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham. The chapel was built on ‘the hylle called the Lady of [...]
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Red Mount Chapel
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Kings Lynn Minster
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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Norwich Cathedral
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Three Out of Four
Only Luton left to explore…
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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 [...]
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