Our Lady of Walsingham?

Pilgrim badge, possibly from the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham at Walsingham Priory. This badge probably depicts the Holy House – a small chapel built around 1061 in honour of the Virgin Mary at Walsingham. The chapel was built by a lady called Richelde of Fervaques and was meant to be a replica of the house at Nazareth where the Angel Gabriel announced to the Virgin Mary that she was to give birth to Christ. The design of the house was said to have been revealed by the Virgin to Richelde in a dream. It became the focus of pilgrimage at Walsingham and the priory was built around it to look after it. The house was kept intact for 400 years and contained many treasures of the shrine. Thousands of pilgrims would have filed through to worship there. Judging by the design of badges of the Holy House, it was a small, two-storey building with the main floor on the upper level. Pilgrims would have climbed one set of stairs to go into the house and down another set to get out. The two sets of stairs can clearly be seen on this badge. There is a very similar badge in the British Museum collection (object no. 1982,0604.3).

The shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham in Norfolk was a popular pilgrimage destination in the medieval period, especially after Henry III made a series of pilgrimages there in the 13th century.