Kings Lynn, Norfolk - St. Margaret's Minster interior - postcard c.1960s

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• Picture / Image:  St. Margarets [Minster], Kings Lynn, the interior looking East
• Publisher: Photo Precision (R718)
• Postally used: no
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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

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.

Architecturally, the slender 12th-century south-west tower in the Early English gothic style predates the larger north-west tower in the Perpendicular style of the 15th century. The chancel, with clerestory dates from the 13th century, when the nave was also rebuilt to replace an earlier Norman nave.^[3] Elements of the Norman building survive in the base of the south-west tower.^[4]

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, which destroyed much of the nave. This was reconstructed in a programme of rebuilding between 1745-46 by the architect Matthew Brettingham in an early Gothic revival style.^[3][4]Some of the bench ends and misericords dating from around 1419 are now found in the Victoria and Albert Museum, but the church still retains some.^[5]

St Margaret's church was granted the honorary title King's Lynn Minster in 2011 by the Bishop of Norwich.