Bury St Edmunds houses [148]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 12 Sep 2020

Number 47 College Street was originally a house, later a shop with living accommodation above, later a shop and office, now a house again. Built in the mid/late 16th century with later rear extensions, timber framed and stuccoed, refronted in the early 19th century when the shop window was added. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1076948 College Street is one of the north-south streets within the medieval grid and is a continuation southward of Hatter Street, running from Churchgate Street to Westgate Street. Almost entirely residential but there is a Victorian school at the south end. 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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