Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Ardenbergh in Great Yarmouth

 The Pilgrimage now makes its way into the important medieval fishing town and commercial port of Great Yarmouth, and to its extremely large parish church of St Nicholas.

Here, in the churchyard east of the church, was the now long-lost chapel of Our Lady of Ardenbergh. This, as I explain in my earlier posts, which can be accessed through Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady “of Ardenbergh” at Great Yarmouth, was a commemoration of the part played by Yarmouth sailors in the victory at the battle of Sluys in 1340.

St Nicholas 1821

This showmen’s the church from the north-east. The chapel of Our Lady of Ardenbergh stood in the churchyard to the east of the 

 

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St Nicholas Church Great Yarmouth

A print published in 1826 showing the view from the south-west

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The church in 1880

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The history of the church, and its curious plan,can be read in the Wikipedia account of its development  over the centuries in Great_Yarmouth_Minster

The drastic mid-Victorian restoration resulted in the church outwardly looking like a building of that time rather than being medieval. Bombing in WWII resulted in the church being completely burnt out. The 1950s restoration incorporated some radical changes but created a spacious place of worship, but does not feel particularly old. Unfortunately the timber and lead spire was not rebuilt.

May Our Lady “of Ardenbergh” intercede for us and our intentions

Jesu mercy, Mary pray