ABSTRACT
The Chapel of St Mary on the Mount, or the Red Mount Chapel as it has been called since the 18th century, is a scheduled ancient monument. It lies at the centre of a Grade II Registered Landscape known as The Walks. Its original purpose seems to have been that of a pilgrimage chapel, and the tendency has been to relate it to the shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham, some 25 miles north-east of King's Lynn. The chapel was built on the eastern boundary of medieval Lynn, on a mound just outside the fortification bank, but within the protective ditch. Following the closure of the Lynn priory in 1537, the Red Mount ceased to be used as a chapel and reverted to the mayor and burgesses as landowners. One of the first people to recognize the antiquarian significance of the building was the Revd Edward Edwards, the 'Lecturer of Lynn'.
