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The Lady Chapel in the south aisle and St Thomas' Chapel in the north aisle were dedicated to St Mary and St Thomas of Canterbury respectively. They fell into disuse in the Reformation, but were restored in the 1880s. [18] The 13th-century chancel has two rib vaulted bays, making it one of only six extant Early English vaulted chancels. [34]
Sir William Calthorpe KB- (1410-1494) knight and High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, born in Burnham Thorpe. Reverend Edmund Nelson - (1722-1802) clergyman, Rector of Burnham Thorpe from 1755. Catherine Suckling - (1725-1767) mother of Horatio Nelson, lived in Burnham Thorpe.
He was the son of Thomas Thursby (d.1510 [1]), merchant, three times Mayor of King's Lynn and the founder and benefactor of Thoresby College. [2] [3] [4]The great wealth inherited to him by his father enabled him to amass large tracts of arable land, which he then enclosed, turning out the landless peasants who had hereto lived there.
The Thomas Cooper Memorial Baptist Church also known as the Thomas Cooper Memorial Church or Chapel, Thomas Cooper Church and TCM Baptist Church, is a Baptist church in the city of Lincoln in Lincolnshire, England. The church is an active church on the High Street of Lincoln and was named in memory of Thomas Cooper. [1]
Red Mount Chapel. Sitting in the centre of The Walks is the Red Mount chapel, also known as 'Our Lady's Chapel' it is a Grade I listed building. [2] It was built in the 15th century to contain a relic of the Virgin, but was also used by pilgrims on their way to Walsingham. [3] It was built by Robert Corraunce on instructions from the Prior of Lynn.
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St Margaret's Church. The construction of St Margaret's Church) in 1101 is the point at which King's Lynn first came into existence in terms of how it is now recognised. Commissioned by the Bishop of Norwich, Herbert de Losinga, at the request of the townspeople 'in honour of the Holy Mary Magdalene and St Margaret and all holy virgins', the church is one of the town's most dominating landmar
Country music icon Loretta Lynn was buried in her family's cemetery on her Hurricane Mills estate Friday morning.. The private ceremony of about 100 guests took place in the town she bought in the ...