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Walsingham Priory was a monastery of Augustinian Canons regular in Walsingham, Norfolk, England seized by the crown at the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII. The priory is perhaps best known for having housed a Marian shrine with a replica of the house of the Holy Family in Nazareth .
Fragmentary remains of Walsingham Priory Snowdrops and winter aconite in the priory gardens. A priory of Canons Regular was established on the site in 1153, a few miles from the sea in the northern part of Norfolk and it grew in importance over the following centuries.
Walsingham Priory: secular chapel founded before 1066; Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1153 by Geoffrey de Favarches (or the widow of Richoldis de Favarches) incorporating the Chapel of Our Lady of Walsingham (founded before 1066); dissolved 1538; granted to Thomas Sidney 1539/40; now in private ownership with public access Little Walsingham ...
The site of the priory with the churchyard and gardens was granted by the Crown to Thomas Sydney. All that remained of it was the gatehouse, the great east window arch and a few outbuildings. The Elizabethan ballad, "A Lament for Walsingham", expresses something of what many Norfolk people felt at the loss of their shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.
Garden Temple: 1729-31: 30 November 1951 1049515: Upload Photo: The Triumphal Arch ... Remains of St Marys Priory: Walsingham: Church: 15th century: 30 November 1951
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It is a large building, perhaps because Walsingham Priory Manor, held by Walsingham Priory from 1318 until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, was one of the two manors in the parish. The other manor was Bigod's Manor, held by the Stone family from the mid-16th to the 19th century.
OSLO (Reuters) -A tram derailed and crashed into a store in central Oslo on Tuesday, injuring the driver and at least three other people, Norwegian police said. The blue tram of the Oslo transport ...