King’s Lynn – Page 5 – Walking. Gossip. Travel.

King’s Lynn – Former Lynn Savings Bank Building

This is the former Lynn Savings Bank building which was completed in 1858 and the gothic design was meant to

This micropub, the first in King’s Lynn, opened in 2017 in what was formerly a Jessops camera shop, although in

This carved wooden chancel screen was originally made in 1584 and it’s another one of those marvels of history that

The west facade of King’s Lynn Minster, with the tide clock visible on the top right and the flood markers

This eagle lectern is made from brass, dates to the fifteenth century and it was once covered in rich jewels.

King’s Lynn Minster was, until the Reformation, once a Benedictine priory, and this chapel at the rear was part of

The Minster’s tide clock, with the lettering around the dial spelling out ‘Lynn High Tide’. When it’s high tide, which

This one defeated me, I can’t read the name on the gravestone. Answers on a postcard (well, messages through the

King’s Lynn Minster had to be reconstructed when there was a little incident in 1741 when part of it collapsed.

I’m not sure that I’ve seen gravestones placed in neat rows around the edge of the churchyard quite like this