Tears, prayers and pilgrims in medieval Lynn

The lives of our medieval forebears were lived within the cycle of the Church Calendar – fast and feast – and amid the daily presence of priests, monks, nuns, friars and pilgrims, together with their churches, chapels and friaries. By following the trail of buildings and sites, you enter the world of Margery Kempe, the extraordinary pilgrim and visionary, the mystic anchorites of All Saints’ Church and hundreds of pilgrims on their way to Walsingham thronging the bustling streets of Bishop’s Lynn familiar from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The trail takes in three fine medieval churches, the unique Red Mount Chapel, the Greyfriars Tower and other remnants and sites of monastic buildings, the Halls of Lynn’s many one-time guilds, as well as the Lynn Museum and its fine collection of pilgrims’ badges.