Bury St Edmunds buildings [44]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 8 Sep 2020

Number 24 Angel Hill is an 18th century timber framed and stuccoed building with later alterations. Recently a printing works with offices, now a restaurant. The Regency style shop front is mid 20th century. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1141170 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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