King's Lynn Minster

King's Lynn Minster
King's Lynn Minster
Location	King's Lynn
Country	England
Denomination	Church of England
Website	stmargaretskingslynn.org.uk
History
Former name(s)	St. Margaret's Parish Church, King's Lynn
Dedication	St Margaret of Antioch
Architecture
Heritage designation	Grade I listed
Groundbreaking	1095
Specifications
Number of towers	2
Bells	10
Administration
Parish	St Margaret with St Nicholas and St Edmund, King's Lynn
Deanery	Lynn
Archdeaconry	Lynn
Diocese	Diocese of Norwich
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Canon Christopher James Ivory


Listed Building – Grade I
Official name: Church of St Margaret, Saturday Market Place
Designated	1 December 1951
Reference no.	1211336^[1]

King's Lynn Minster (St Margaret's) is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England^[2] in King's Lynn.

History

Benedictine priory

The church was established by Herbert de Losinga Bishop of Norwich in 1095 to serve a Benedictine Priory and dedicated to St Margaret of Antioch. The priory was subordinate to the Priory of the Holy Trinity in Norwich.

Parish church

After the English Reformation St Margaret's became the parish church for the town of King's Lynn, and its property was used as an endowment for Norwich Cathedral. Prior Drake was made prebend of the fourth stall in Norwich Cathedral.

The central lantern and south-west spire collapsed in 1741 and there was a programme of rebuilding in 1745-46 by the architect Matthew Brettingham. Some of the bench ends and misericords dating from around 1419 are now found in the Victoria and Albert Museum,^[3] but the church still retains some .

The church is notable for the two-storey porch and the angel roof.

The church was given the title King's Lynn Minster in 2011.

Bells

The oldest bell is a Sanctus bell dating from 1657 by Thomas Norris. The main ring of 10 bells is in the key of C with a tenor weighing just over 28 cwt.

1 Mears and Stainbank 1887
2 Mears and Stainbank 1887
3 Lester and Pack 1766
4 Lester and Pack 1766
5 Lester and Pack 1766
6 Lester and Pack 1766
7 Lester and Pack 1766
8 Mears and Stainbank 1893
9 John Taylor Bellfounders Ltd 2005
10 Lester and Pack 1766

Organ

The organ dates from 1754 when it was installed by John Snetzler. The church organist for nine years from 1751 was the music historian and composer Charles Burney.^[4] The organ has been through many restorations and rebuildings since then, the latest in 2003 by Holmes and Swift. Specifications of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.^[5]

Gallery

The nave and chancel
Bench end
The Sneztler organ case

References

↑ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1211336)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
↑ The Buildings of England : Norfolk: Nikolaus Pevsner.
↑ Victoria and Albert Museum Collection Ref: W.16-1921, W.5-1916, W.54-1921 etc
↑ ODNB: John Wagstaff, "Burney, Charles (1726–1814)" Retrieved 23 March 2014, pay-walled.
↑ http://npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=R00196

Members of the Greater Churches Network

Province of Canterbury	Bath Abbey St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham St Botolph's Church, Boston St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge Church of St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield Christchurch Priory Holy Trinity Church, Coventry St Wulfram's Church, Grantham Great Malvern Priory Great Yarmouth Minster All Saints' Church, Hertford King's Lynn Minster St James' Church, Louth St Laurence's Church, Ludlow All Saints Church, Fulham, London All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames, London Christ Church, Spitalfields, London St Marylebone Parish Church, London St Martin-in-the-Fields, London St Peter Mancroft, Norwich Pershore Abbey Romsey Abbey St Andrew's Church, Rugby St Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon St Mary Magdalene, Taunton Sherborne Abbey Shrewsbury Abbey Tewkesbury Abbey Waltham Abbey Church Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick Wimborne Minster St Peter's Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton

Province of York	Beverley Minster Bolton Abbey Bridlington Priory St George's Minster, Doncaster Halifax Minster St Peter's Church, Harrogate Grimsby Minster Hexham Abbey Holy Trinity Church, Hull Kendal Parish Church Lancaster Priory Leeds Minster St Mary's Church, Nantwich Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent St Mary's Church, Nottingham Rotherham Minster Selby Abbey Sunderland Minster

Church in Wales	Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny St Giles' Church, Wrexham

Scottish Episcopal Church	Church of St John the Evangelist, Edinburgh

Coordinates: 52°45′5.12″N 0°23′43.59″E / 52.7514222°N 0.3954417°E / 52.7514222; 0.3954417

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