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Red Mount Chapel is a fifteenth-century brick structure situated on The Walk in King's Lynn, Norfolk. Built in the 1480s, it served as a waystation or shrine for pilgrims travelling to the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, one of medieval England's most important pilgrimage destinations. The chapel is a small, distinctive building of octagonal plan constructed in red brick, a material that was relatively fashionable in late medieval East Anglia. Its architectural form and location on a prominent thoroughfare reflect the religious significance of pilgrimage routes during the late Middle Ages and the prosperity of King's Lynn as a trading port.
Red Mount Chapel, The Walk is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1003691. View the official record →
Red Mount Chapel is a fifteenth-century brick structure situated on The Walk in King's Lynn, Norfolk. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1003691.
Red Mount Chapel, The Walk is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1003691.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Medieval town walls (0.1 km), Greyfriars Tower (0.5 km), Whitefriars Gateway, South Lynn (0.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Red Mount Chapel, The Walk's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Red Mount Chapel, The Walk stands on West Walton Formation, Ampthill Clay Formation And Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Kimmeridgian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.