Church Of All Saints

The Church of All Saints is a parish church located in King's Lynn, notable for being the earliest church in the town. It dates back to the 11th century, with significant rebuilding occurring in the 14th and 15th centuries. The west tower collapsed in 1763. The church is constructed from carstone, flint, and brick, featuring ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Its layout includes a nave, nave aisles, transepts, and a chancel. Most windows are replacements, with the west nave wall made of gault brick from 1763. A bell cote is situated over the gable, and there are three-light Perpendicular windows along with two-light Perpendicular aisle west windows. The nave aisles have stepped buttresses and three-light Perpendicular windows. Doorways are located in the second bay on both the north and south sides. The clerestory features chequer flushwork and parapets, with four two-light clerestory windows under four-centred arches. Fragments from the 13th century can be found in the transepts, particularly on the south side. The main windows are three-light with tracery attempting to mimic Perpendicular style. The north chancel includes a gabled vestry and a window to the east, while the south chancel was historically the site of an anchorite cell in the 13th century, with visible scars remaining. This side features two two-light windows and a small gabled structure at the east end that may relate to the cell. The chancel has a three-light east window.

Inside, the church boasts a four-bay Perpendicular arcade with moulded arches supported by elaborately designed piers. These piers feature filleted engaged columns on the east and west sides, and polygonal columns on the north and south sides. A screen at the west end consists of six painted 17th-century panels depicting the Apostles, which were relocated from St Peter's in West Lynn. Above the screen is a 20th-century gallery. The nave roof, dating to the 15th century, has hollow-chamfered tie beams on arched braces that descend to wall posts and stone corbels, with pierced tracery spandrels. King and Queen posts rise to principals and one tier of butt purlins. A late 20th-century rood screen is present, along with a 19th-century hammerbeam roof in the chancel. The octagonal 15th-century font is set on a 19th-century stem, with the bowl panels alternating between tracery and cusping. In the chancel's south wall, there is a three-bay sedilia from the 15th century, with each seat recess featuring a cusped and sub-cusped arched head within a square surround, along with a similar piscina to the east.