![]() |
The Walsingham Archives The Archives of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham |
![]() |
This website has been created to provide a way of accessing the Shrine's archives. We hope that it will particularly meet the needs of the later generations of pilgrims, and of those who never knew Walsingham in Fr Patten's lifetime, who are curious to know how it all started. The history of the Shrine comes to life in the pages of Our Lady's Mirror and its successor journals: extracts from all editions of the Mirror are now on this site, 1926-1959, and the Friends of Walsingham Occasional Paper, 1955-1961. There are continuous additions to the pages of early photographs and early Shrine publications. New aspects of the history are also being added all the time. |
![]() the completed Shrine Church just before the Blessing of the extension on 6 June 1938 |
The
death has been announced of Canon Charles David Smith, Administrator 1968-72, Clerk of the Order of Our Lady of Walsingham 1964-73 and Guardian (Registrar) 1973-85 |
![]() |
|
We
shall be sending an email to our mailing list members when changes are made
to the site at the end of this month: contact
the archivist to be added to the list.
Mails are sent to "Undisclosed Recipients", and no email
addresses are shown. Search facility not yet available but contact the archivist for search results. The site appears to be very well indexed by Google. Illustrations: top of page: (left) the seal of the medieval priory; (right) the modern logo; (below) the west front of the Shrine just before the Blessing of the new extension in 1938; three drawings by Enid Chadwick 1938: clockwise from top right: through the window of the Holy House; lighting up in the Holy House; the Common Place | ![]() |
dating
will restart when the online index is launched |