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St. Saviours Interchange, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP32 7JS

Looking over a litter-strewn River Lark.

Looking east, we have the car park to the left, with some industrial silos in the distance and the train to the right.

Dominated by the wall of the Tesco store. The medieval hospital site gives its name to the whole site, and to the central A14 junction.

The river flows along a deep channel through the centre of the supermarket car park.

This is part of the medieval Hospital of St Saviour, founded in 1185 by Abbot Sampson. Built in flint with stone dressings this is the floor of a range probably containing a hall with a chapel at the east end. Above the doorway is a plaque recording the death of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, uncle of Henry VI. See also Image and Image Listed, grade I, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1363685 The site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1003760 North of the town centre Northgate Street and St John’s Street run towards the site of Northgate and the railway station and both streets have many older buildings. In between these two streets is a number of streets irregularly laid out (compared to the medieval grid of the town centre) containing mostly houses and buildings from the 19th century. 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.

Sandwiched by the Tesco store and an odd Victorian house, this is the ruin of St. Saviour's hospital, which now gives its name to the central junction on the A14. The house on the left looks as if it should be part of a terrace, but is actually separated from a terrace by an access road to the rear.