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Unique historic Chapel operating as a mixed-use venue, available to hire for public & private events
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The largest Chapel of Ease in the country, St Nicholas’ Chapel was originally founded by William Turbus, the third Bishop of Norwich in around 1140. The building we see today is mostly the result of substantial re-building between the late 14th and early 15th centuries, with the exception of the tower, which originally dates from around 1225 and was comprehensively reordered in 1852. The Chapel is

in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust, the national charity saving historic churches at risk, with support from the Freinds of St Nicholas' Chapel. In September 2015 it was reopened following a £2.7m regeneration project, in partnership with the Friends of St Nicholas' Chapel and the Heritage Lottery Fund. Since reopening, the chapel has begun a new life as a venue for a range of cultural events including concerts, fairs and exhibitions, as well as public, private and corporate functons.

21/07/2024

And look who’s coming today, our friends King's Lynn Festival Chorus 🎶

21/07/2024

Great to have Harvey Stansfield - Musician here yesterday, the first of 3 very fine performances for King's Lynn Festival’s Early Music Day 🎶

20/07/2024

So King's Lynn Festival Early Music Day has started here at the Chapel, with the first of 3 concerts! 🎶

19/07/2024

Saturday sees not one but three concerts brought to the chapel by our friends King's Lynn Festival, for their Early Music Day 🎶

Tickets available from Alive Corn Exchange or on the door.

It’ll be nice & cool in here too, just sayin’ …

14/07/2024

Following King's Lynn Festival’s Early Music Day on Saturday we’re equally delighted to welcome King's Lynn Festival Chorus on Sunday.

We would tell you all about their concert but we know they’ll do a much better job of it than us, so here you go!

14/07/2024

So this weekend we’ve been awash with a fabulous display from Samphire Quilters, so just to mix it up we’ll be awash with music next weekend 🎶

Delighted to have King's Lynn Festival bring their Early Music Day to us again on Saturday this year, with not one concert but three!

See below for more information, tickets still available Alive Corn Exchange

14/07/2024

So we are again awash with colour on a grey day, but the exhibition closes this afternoon, so if you’d like to see the glorious quilts on display from our good friends Samphire Quilters do come along. So much variety but all made with equal love, care & creativity.

There’s also trade stalls & demos along with refreshments & cake (we love cake).

And if that wasn’t enough to tempt you along the quilters work just as hard supporting local charities as they do making quilts. This year they’re raising funds for Leeway Domestic Violence and Abuse Services & The Fent Shop P F Day and Son’s Colin is on a sewing marathon for Nelson's Journey throughout the exhibition ❤️

13/07/2024

Such a dull day this morning but we’ve all the colours here all thanks to Samphire Quilters & their wonderful exhibition of quilts.

There’s also trade stands, demos & refreshments, including the most excellent cake!

Saturday 10am-4pm & Sunday 10am-3pm

12/07/2024

We Love Concerts are looking for someone with experience of online promotion, if you’d like to find out more email [email protected]

They’re the organisers for a number of concerts here at the chapel 🎶

11/07/2024

We’re closed to general visitors today (Thursday) as we’ve Samphire Quilters here setting up for their exhibition.

It’s a real highlight of our year & we’ll be open Friday, Saturday and Sunday with all their fabulous work on display, as well as trade stands, demo’s & refreshments!

10/07/2024

Don’t know about you but we like the sound of outrageously theatrical!

Seems King's Lynn Festival Chorus do too?!

On SUNDAY 21st JULY at 4pm we take to the stage of St Nicholas Chapel for the final concert of our season. Join us for Rossini’s outrageously theatrical ‘Petite Messe Solennelle’. We are joined by a team of four soloists, two pianists, and an accordionist. As usual, our own Music Director Ben Horden will be on the podium. Stay in touch with our socials over the coming week as we introduce them and the piece we’re performing and get your concert tickets now: https://www.kingslynnfestival.org.uk/whats-on?vieweventdetails&eventid=1078&event=Kings-Lynn-Festival-Chorus

10/07/2024

Coming soon kind courtesy King's Lynn Festival! 🎶

Meet our soloists! We are thrilled to welcome Hilary Cronin (https://www.hilarycronin-soprano.co.uk), Emma Roberts (https://www.emmarobertsmezzosoprano.com), Zahid Siddiqui (https://englishtouringopera.org.uk/profile/zahidd-siddiqui), and Dan d’Souza (http://www.dandsouza.com), who together make up the soloist team for Rossini’s ‘Petite Messe Solennelle’. Join us on Sunday 21st July in King's Lynn Festival as we take to the stage of St Nicholas Chapel alongside these wonderful artists. Tickets here: https://www.kingslynnfestival.org.uk/whats-on?vieweventdetails&eventid=1078&event=Kings-Lynn-Festival-Chorus

10/07/2024

Frankie might say Relax, we say party!

Retro Party Night

25/06/2024

Mornin’

23/06/2024

Today’s the day, the welcome return of Norfolk Symphony Orchestra for their Summer concert ☀️

Tickets still available if you’d like to join us!

13/06/2024

We’re very excited too, to be welcoming Music in Country Churches and The Cardinall's Musick to King’s Lynn!

We do hope you can join us too, follow the link below for booking info 😇

We're very excited about our concert in St Nicholas Chapel KL on 31 July. The fabulous, award-winning vocal ensemble The Cardinall's Musick will fill the glorious space of St Nicholas Chapel KL with choral music in a celebration of one of Britain's greatest composers, Charles Villiers Stanford.

NOT TO BE MISSED! Full details of the programme and tickets at https://bit.ly/49xzRiI

(Photo: Benjamin Ealovega)

12/06/2024

And later in July we’re pleased to welcome King's Lynn Festival & their Early Music Day, it’s become a bit of a tradition!

12/06/2024

We’re all quiet this weekend but next weekend we’ll be filled with the sound of Norfolk Symphony Orchestra at their best 🎶

Hope to see you there!

10/06/2024

Delighted to have Music in Country Churches with us in July 🎶 It’s the first time they’ve performed here so they’re making up for that with not just the one, but two concerts!

Hope to see you there, tickets still available, follow the link below for details.

Seven concerts in six counties! We've already had two and what great fun they were.
Next, we're in on 30 June for a concert in St Peter and St Paul, Clare with The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge and their fantastic programme 'Sounding Heaven and Earth' of music from the British Isles, old and new.
Tickets for this and all our concerts available from https://bit.ly/49xzRiI

And at our concerts you'll also have the chance to get hold of one of our fabulous tea towels featuring the design below!

09/06/2024

A full house & great performance from King's Lynn Community Choir, who certainly gave it their all!

Kings Lynn Foodbank & Norfolk Blood Bikes will both benefit from the resounding success of this Concert ❤️

All thanks to both choir & audience for such a great night 😇

The choir are back with us in December, so keep an eye out for when tickets go on sale, they’ve sold out for their last 2 concerts!

09/06/2024

Our friends King's Lynn Community Choir did themselves proud for their sold out Summer Concert, don’t take our word for it though, here’s a little of what the audience thought!

Fair to say a good time was had by all, while raising much needed funds for Kings Lynn Foodbank & Norfolk Blood Bikes ❤️

07/06/2024

What a fabulous thing for King's Lynn Community Choir to be *sold out* for their concert here on Saturday night, we’re delighted for them! They’re raising much needed funds for Kings Lynn Foodbank & Norfolk Blood Bikes too ❤️

At the end of June we’ve the welcome return of Norfolk Symphony Orchestra with their Summer Concert, no doubt an excellent performance from them in our wonderful acoustic. Can’t think of a better way to spend a Sunday afternoon 🎶

Later in the year Retro Party Experience are back too & adding to the mix with something a little different from their last event, The Edwin Starr Band aka The Team ⭐️

Hope to see you soon, enjoying some fine entertainment of one kind or another!

29/05/2024

Looking forward to the return of our friends Norfolk Symphony Orchestra at the end of June for their Summer concert, just the perfect thing for a Sunday afternoon 🎶

22/05/2024

Great reminder of a fabulous night here on Saturday from Retro Party Experience 💖 It was their first event here & we’re pleased to say they’ll be back!

21/05/2024

A picture is worth a thousand words right?!

All thanks to the Retro Party Experience team & all the fabulous people who came along & partied like it really was the 80’s & 90’s 💖

19/05/2024

Our thanks too, to Retro Party Experience for putting on a great night & all you lovely people who came along & partied in true 80’s & 90’s style 😇

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Our friends King's Lynn Community Choir did themselves proud for their sold out Summer Concert, don’t take our word for it though, here’s a little of what the audience thought! Fair to say a good time was had by all, while raising much needed funds for Kings Lynn Foodbank & Norfolk Blood Bikes ❤️

As is the tradition King's Lynn Minster ring in King's Lynn Festival fortnight, while we have some fine bell ringing here today to mark the last day 🔔

We were a bit busy & forgot to share this on Friday, enjoy!! 🔔🔔🔔

We’ve shared a few photos already so here’s a little bit of Supersonic Queen in action, they might well want it all but they certainly gave it their all too!! Do remember folks this was recorded on a phone 😇

Such a great performance all round from The Sheringham Shantymen with the audience joining in for good measure on this one!

And of course The Sheringham Shantymen sounded just amazing in here but don’t just take our word for it!

What could be more magikally Mydwynter than this? Mediaeval Baebes dancing, singing & generally making merry!* *there was a little lamenting too, just for balance 😉

Here’s a little snippet of the amazing Mediaeval Baebes who we were delighted to have here with us last night! Please take our word for it when we say they sounded & looked so much better than our low tech recording, just listen to the audience at the end if you don’t believe us… Their tour continues if you’ve not seen them yet or want to see them again, do check their page for details 😇

What a fabulously festive evening, a great performance & varied repertoire from King's Lynn Community Choir. It’s their first time here at the Chapel & we’re hoping they’ll be back in 2023! The choir were also raising much needed funds for King's Lynn Night Shelter who do such amazing work here in our town ❤️

Here’s a little sneak peak of when King's Lynn Community Choir came along to be introduced to our Henry Willis organ & they will of course be making excellent use of it for their Christmas Concert, here on 9th Dec 🎶

Then in the middle of October we had the pleasure of welcoming Steeleye Span to the Chapel! This snippet really doesn't do them justice but it's such a familiar & well loved song we just had to share it as a little reminder of their fabulous performance. Brought to us again kind courtesy OEP Live 🎶 Did you know Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band released some fine versions of works by Vaughan Williams, who visited our very own North End to record the songs of the fishing community?

And here's a little peak at the ringers from the inside! 🔔

The Minster ring their bells at the beginning of King's Lynn Festival & now it's our turn to mark the last weekend with a fabulous Full Peal led by David C Brown of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich. If you happen to be in King's Lynn you can probably hear us! For those in the know it's a Cambridge Surprise Major 🔔🔔🔔

Sea Sunday bell ringing

We might have been up late last night with a Wedding Reception but there are certainly advantages to an early start! Bell ringing for the Sea Sunday service today 🔔🔔🔔

A Springwood Christmas Carol

Did someone say It's Christmaaaaaas!? ✨ A Springwood Christmas Carol in full swing tonight 🎶

A Springwood Christmas Carol - Scrann

A Springwood Christmas Carol, anything but ordinary!

Don't just take our word for it though, the audience were just as lively as the musicians! Blazin' Fiddles 🎻 King's Lynn Festival 🎶

We've not had Blazin' Fiddles here with us at the chapel before, but we're awfully glad we can now say we have, thanks to our good friends King's Lynn Festival! What a great night 🎶

Bells at St Nick's

Well hello sunny Sunday! 🔔

Here's a little something from the brilliant Springwood High School Christmas Concert last week 🎶 Greetings of the season to you and yours from all of us here at the Chapel ✨ Have a fabulously festive time whatever you are up to! 💕

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St Nicholas’ Chapel is in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust, the national charity protecting historic churches at risk, with support from the Friends of St Nicholas' Chapel.

The Chapel is currently closed for visiting but should reopen in early Spring. We are in urgent need of more volunteers to help hosting visitors and showcasing a historic part of Kings Lynn history. Leave a message here and we will contact you.

The building also operates as a cultural venue for a wide variety of events including concerts and exhibitions, and is available to hire for private and corporate functions.

Tours can be booked for individuals and groups, we also offer school visits and other educational and family activities.