It is a Walsingham walk and its history on subtitles including the Slipper Chapel.

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Welcome! Saturday 28 May 2022.
Temperature: 17C | 63F

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00:00 Walsingham in Norfolk, England,
00:16 Holt Road
00:47 Common Place
01:35 High Street
02:18 Walsingham Abbey
02:57 High Street
05:42 EWTN TV and Radio
06:19 Friday Market
07:56 Roman Catholic Church of the Annunciation, Little Walsingham
http://wasleys.org.uk/eleanor/churche...

10:08 Slipper Chapel
Barsham Road, Houghton St Giles, Walsingham NR22 6AL
https://www.walsingham.org.uk

12:46 The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham (Anglican)
14:29 Replica of the Holy House.

History

In 1061, the Virgin Mary appeared to Richeldis de Faverches, lady of the manor of Walsingham.

The Virgin “led her in spirit” to Nazareth and gave her the measurements of the “Holy House” where she had received the Angel Gabriel for the Annunciation and had her later lived with the Holy Family.

Mary asked Richeldis to build “England Nazareth”, a replica of the Holy House, and told her “whoever seeks my help there will not go empty-handed”

The Holy House of wood construction, was built at Walsingham.
No attempt was made to imitate Palestinian architecture. Its construction accompanied by many wonders.

In 1153, a Priory of Augustinian Canons was founded at Walsingham to look after the spiritual needs of pilgrims.
A magnificent Priory Church was built but the wooden Holy House remained the centre of devotion.
To protect it from the weather it was incase in stone structure called Novum Opus (“new work”)

In 1226, Henry III was the first English king to visit the Holy House. For the next 300 years every king and queen of England visited the shrine.

In 1340, this church was built dedicated to St Catherine of Alexandria.

One mile (1.6 Km) away from the Holy House, this church was the last of the “station chapels” on the pilgrimage route to Walsingham.

Because the pilgrims left their shoes here and walked the last “Holy Mile” slipperless, this church became known as the Slipper Chapel.

Walsingham and the tomb of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury were the two main pilgrimage shrines of the medieval period.

In 1511, Henry VIII visited Walsingham, he walked the Holy Mile slipperless and installed a king’s priest to say Mass daily at the Holy House, and paid for a king’s candle to be kept permanently lit.

In 1537, The Reformation. Sub-prior Nicholas Mileham, arid a layman George Guisborough, were executed for resisting the new reforms.

In 1538, Henry VIII desecrated and sacked Walsingham.

The Holy House was burnt to the ground.
The Augustinian Priory was looted by the Crown and then levelled.
Thomas Cromwell, the king’s chief minister, had the statue of Our Lady of Walsingham moved to London where it was burnt on a bonfire in Chelsea.

In 1879, Catholic historian Edmund Waterton published a book: Pietas Mariana Britannica.
A chapter devoted to Walsingham created new interest in the ancient shrine.

In 1890, an anglican Charlotte Boyd tried to purchase the Priory ruins with a view to build a new shrine on the site.

She was unsuccessful, but was able to purchase the 14th century Slipper Chapel. Since the Reformation it had been used as cow byre, a barn and a workhouse.

In 1894, Charlotte Boyd was received into the Catholic Church.
She devoted her energies into restoring the Slipper Chapel.
After repairing the chapel at her own expense, Charlotte Boyd donated it to the Benedictines of Downside.

In 1906, Charlotte Boyd died with her plans unfulfilled.

In 1922, Alfred Hope Patten (1885 -1958) Anglo-Catholic priest installed a statue of Our Lady in the guild chapel of his church.

The statue was modelled on the image depicted on the seal of the medieval priory in the British Museum.

In 1934, the Slipper Chapel became the Catholic National Shrine of Our Lady.

In 1934, Alfred Hope Patten started to build this new Shrine Church in Walsingham Village and moved the statue to the new church.

Patten intended this Anglican Shrine to serve as a “living act of reparation” for the sins of the Reformation.

The shrine includes a replica of the Holy House.
Embedded in its walls are stones from many of the monastic houses destroyed during the Reformation.
The altar was built with stones which formed the original Priory Church.

In 1950, a temporary Catholic Church was built on this site, the first in over 400 years.

In 2006, it was replaced by this modern designed to be Britain’s first carbon neutral church with solar panels.

The stone cross on the front of the church came from the original church


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