Bury St Edmunds houses [28]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 11 Sep 2020

Number 44 Crown Street was built as a house in the late 17th century. Alterations were made in the late 18th century and the building became the Three Tuns Inn. It closed as a public house in 1903 as, at that time, it was not considered suitable to have an inn so near a church. The building then became St Mary's Institute and suffered extensive fire damage in 1949. The building was purchased by the local Labour Party and a rear extension was added. It continued as the party's headquarters until about 2000 when it was sold and renovated as a private house. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1342759 Crown Street is an historic street that starts with a brewery and finishes with a cathedral, has a medieval graveyard, the second largest parish church in the country and houses from the 16th to the 19th centuries. 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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