Margery Kempe was an English Catholic mystic, known for writing through dictation The Book of Margery Kempe, a work considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language. Her book c
A page from The Book of Margery Kempe
Unknown painter Transfiguration of Christ WGA23487
King's Lynn, known until 1537 as Bishop's Lynn and colloquially as Lynn, is a port and market town in the borough of King's Lynn and West Norfolk in the county of Norfolk, England. It is 36 miles nort
Margery Kempe
…God. She is honoured in the Anglican Communion, but has not been canonised as a Catholic saint. She was born Margery Burnham or Brunham around 1373 in Bishop's Lynn (now King's Lynn), Norfolk, England. Her father, John Brunham, was a merchant in Lynn, mayor of the town and Member of Parliament. The first record of her Brunham family…
The 15th-century 'Hanse House' warehouse built by Hanseatic merchants in King's Lynn, reflecting the town's role in North Sea trade
Trinity Guildhall (15th century), King's Lynn—one of England's oldest civic buildings, formerly housing both guild chambers and a prison
Damage from the 1915 aerial bombing during the First World War. On 19 January 1915, King's Lynn was bombed by the German Zeppelin L 4, with explosions striking Bentinck Street, Albert Street, and a field behind Tennyson Avenue—marking one of Britain's earliest civilian air raids
The 17th-century Custom House in King's Lynn, a landmark of Classical architecture designed by Henry Bell, associated with the town's maritime trade