Bury St Edmunds houses [6]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 11 Sep 2020

Number 12 Angel Hill has a 16th century timber framed core and was altered and refronted in white brick in the early 19th century. The top storey was added in the early 20th century and the building was restored in the 1980s. Some original internal features remain. Until recently used as a hotel. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1141161 Now used as a car park, Angel Hill the traditional market place was, until the 1870s, home to the famous Bury Fair. People from Europe and across the Far East came to buy and sell. Bury St Edmunds is a market town which is the cultural and retail centre for West Suffolk and is known for brewing (Greene King) and sugar (British Sugar). There is scattered evidence of earlier activity but essentially Bury St Edmunds began as one of the royal boroughs of the Saxons and a monastery was founded which became the burial place of King Edmund. A new Benedictine abbey was built in 1020 which became rich and powerful and the town was laid out on a grid pattern by Abbot Baldwin. After the dissolution the abbey became ruinous. A new church, later the cathedral, was begun in the early 16th century.

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