Tower Gardens, King's Lynn
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Tower Gardens, King's Lynn
Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 30 Apr 2011
This is a view across the site of the choir where the friars would have met and worshipped together. Archaeologists have discovered the footings for the choir stalls and a resonance chamber beneath them which would have amplified the sound of the friars' singing. The tower gardens once used to be a friary's orchard. When the friary was closed in 1538, the tower and the land surrounding it passed to the Town Council. The garden was designed in 1911 as a public park to commemorate the coronation of King George V. In 1921 it became the site of the town's war memorial. Previously, this part of Greyfriars was used to hold cattle awaiting market. The tower has since been completely restored and its gardens remodelled to show the extent of the 14th century Franciscan friary.
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Image Location
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52.751773
Longitude
0.40035