Bury St Edmunds features [9]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 12 Sep 2020

The boundary wall to the United Reformed Church Image is 18th or early 19th century in a mix of flint, brick and random stone with red brick dressings. On a corner site with the south side onto College Lane. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1132617 Whiting Street is one of the north-south streets laid out by Abbot Baldwin in the 12th century and has buildings from the early medieval to the late 20th century. The street is divided by Churchgate Street at its midpoint and the character is mainly residential to the southern part with a mixture of residential with retail and commercial uses to the northern part. 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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