Bury St Edmunds houses [29]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 11 Sep 2020

Numbers 45 and 45A Crown Street were one house, divided into two circa 1900 when the top storey was added. Built in the early/mid 18th century in two shades of red brick. There is a rear late 20th century extension. Some original internal features remain. Listed, grade II*, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1342760 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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