Bury St Edmunds houses [155]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 12 Sep 2020

College Square Almshouses were built in the 1930s in an Arts and Craft style. Laid out around formal gardens the cottages are in red brick and roughcast. These almshouses are the last group of Feoffment sponsored alms houses in the town, a tradition dating back to the 15th century. College Lane, also known as Hogg Lane is a pedestrianised east-west route in the medieval grid plan. In two parts, divided by Whiting Street it runs from Guildhall Street to College Street. On the east side of College Road the route continues as Church Walks. 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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