King’s Lynn Minster – Walking. Gossip. Travel.

King’s Lynn – King’s Lynn Minster (Carved Screen)

This carved wooden chancel screen was originally made in 1584 and it’s another one of those marvels of history that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

I’m not sure that I’ve been to a church which has these high water and flood level markings by the

This rather glorious chest, made from pine, dates from the fifteenth century and is known as a Danzig Chest. It’s