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Priory Lane, KING'S LYNN, PE30 5DU

Priory Lane traverses the Historic Quarter, the cottage back onto the churchyard of St Margaret's. Kings Lynn was originally known as Lin. After the founding of St Margaret's church and priory by Bishop Losinga in 1101 the town became known as Bishops Lin. With increasing trade building up along the waterways a second settlement was established to the north and Lynn now consisted of two medieval settlements, each with its own church and marketplace. When King Henry VIII in 1537 decided to take control from the Bishop of Norwich the town became known as Kings Lynn. By the middle ages the town's port was considered as important as the one at Liverpool.

The cottages are situated along Priory Lane > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921891.

The cottages are situated along Priory Lane > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921891. Kings Lynn was originally known as Lin. After the founding of St Margaret's church and priory by Bishop Losinga in 1101 the town became known as Bishops Lin. With increasing trade building up along the waterways a second settlement was established to the north and Lynn now consisted of two medieval settlements, each with its own church and marketplace. When King Henry VIII in 1537 decided to take control from the Bishop of Norwich the town became known as Kings Lynn. By the middle ages the town's port was considered as important as the one at Liverpool.

A row of fourteenth/fifteenth century houses originally part of St. Margaret's Priory. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1195412

King's Lynn, Norfolk, Priory Lane

The cottages on the left occupy the only surviving parts of the former Benedictine Priory. Image] shows the rear of the row.

This is in the old part of King's Lynn, adjacent to King's Lynn Minster.

St Margaret's church (the church's full dedication is to St Margaret, St Mary Magdalene and All the Virgin Saints), situated on Saturday Market Place, is the second largest medieval church in Norfolk, measuring 235 feet (72 metres) in length. The church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921926 was built on the site of a Norman priory church and whereas the south-west tower > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921902 of the building has survived in its original form, the priory, of which no trace remains, was dissolved in the 1530s. The church was further rebuilt and added onto during the 13th century but when the spire and top of the north-west tower collapsed in 1740 much of the nave was destroyed. The building was reconstructed in the 19th century, restoring the transepts, removing a row of shops on the north side and installing a clock > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921936 on the south-west tower which shows the time of high tides. Beside the west doorway there are a number of markers > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921940 recording the high water levels of 19th and 20th century town floods. Inside the church, the 14th century carved misericords > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921969 in the chancel are a reminder of the former priory status and the screens in the aisles > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921962 date from the 14th century also. The Flemish-style reredos > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921954 dates from the late 1800s. The stained glass windows > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921974 were installed in the 19th and 20th centuries, with the east window > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921955 being an unusual round shape. The glass it contains was made by Ward and Hughes. Two of the most famous and largest C14 brasses in England can be found in the south aisle > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921989 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921996 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921997. They are believed to be of Flemish workmanship and commemorate wealthy merchants who were mayors of King's Lynn. The other brasses in the church (there is a record of over 40) were sold by churchwardens in order to raise money for repairs and some others were stolen by a gravedigger who, after having been accused of theft, hanged himself in the belfry.

Copy of Adam de Walsoken's brass. St Margaret's church (the church's full dedication is to St Margaret, St Mary Magdalene and All the Virgin Saints), situated on Saturday Market Place, is the second largest medieval church in Norfolk, measuring 235 feet (72 metres) in length. The church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921926 was built on the site of a Norman priory church and whereas the south-west tower > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921902 of the building has survived in its original form, the priory, of which no trace remains, was dissolved in the 1530s. The church was further rebuilt and added onto during the 13th century but when the spire and top of the north-west tower collapsed in 1740 much of the nave was destroyed. The building was reconstructed in the 19th century, restoring the transepts, removing a row of shops on the north side and installing a clock > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921936 on the south-west tower which shows the time of high tides. Beside the west doorway there are a number of markers > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921940 recording the high water levels of 19th and 20th century town floods. Inside the church, the 14th century carved misericords > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921969 in the chancel are a reminder of the former priory status and the screens in the aisles > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921962 date from the 14th century also. The Flemish-style reredos > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921954 dates from the late 1800s. The stained glass windows > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921974 were installed in the 19th and 20th centuries, with the east window > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921955 being an unusual round shape. The glass it contains was made by Ward and Hughes. Two of the most famous and largest C14 brasses in England can be found in the south aisle > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921989 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921996 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1921997. They are believed to be of Flemish workmanship and commemorate wealthy merchants who were mayors of King's Lynn. The other brasses in the church (there is a record of over 40) were sold by churchwardens in order to raise money for repairs and some others were stolen by a gravedigger who, after having been accused of theft, hanged himself in the belfry.