The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham

A detailed and scholarly 1956 history of the priory at Walsingham, built in AD 1130 by Richelde of Fervaques.

J. C. Dickinson (Author)

9780521240550, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 9 June 2011

182 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 1.1 cm, 0.2 kg

A pious woman, Richelde of Fervaques built a chapel at Walsingham about AD 1130; her son William converted it into a priory about twenty years later. The original chapel may have been meant to reproduce the Holy House at Nazetheth where the Annunciation took place. The abbey is now a ruin, but Walsingham with its nearby shrine and Slipper Chapel has now again become an important place of pilgrimage, visited annually by many thousands of Anglicans and Roman Catholics. Mr Dickinson gives a detailed and scholarly history of the priory in the first part of his 1956 book. The second part traces, from the remains and past records, the architecture of the site. The plates and plan help the reader to follow this reconstitution and give some idea of the past beauty of the monastery and its shrine.

List of illustrations
Preface
List of abbreviations
Part I. Historical: 1. The origins of the shrine
2. The progress of pilgrimage
3. The last days
Part II. Archaeological: 4. The church and cloisters
5. The places of pilgrimage
6. Miscellanea: seals, statute, badges, etc.
Appendices
Index.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]