Walsingham Abbey & The Shirehall Museum

Walsingham Abbey is famous as a ruined mediaeval priory, place of pilgrimage and for stunning displays of snowdrops in February. The Shirehall Museum, Walsingham local history museum in a 18th century courtroom, and Prison are temporarily closed.

Admission to Walsingham Abbey Grounds is currently at the medieval gatehouse in Walsingham High Street.

The Shirehall Museum (temporarily closed) is a 16C building, first built as a hostel for important pilgrims to the Priory. In the 1770s it became Walsingham’s courthouse with the original panelled Courtroom in use until 1971.

The Priory ruins include the great East Window of the church, known as the Arch, which stands in splendid isolation in the main lawn.