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Cornhill, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 1BT

The main post office Bury St. Edmunds Suffolk.

Town centre at night Bury St.Edmunds, Suffolk.

Numbers 3A and 3B The Traverse were one house now divided into 2 shops with storage above. Built in the 16th century, timber framed and stuccoed. Alterations in the 18th century included the addition of the mansard roof. The building has a rear range with a frontage to Skinner Street. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1145956 Cornhill, Buttermarket and The Traverse are the commercial heart of the town. Cornhill incorporates the market areas set out in the 12th century where twice weekly markets are held, Buttermarket with The Traverse extend to the south connecting with Abbeygate Street and Guildhall Street. The area has some of the town’s finest and most important buildings. 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.

Number 4 and number 4A The Traverse was a house now divided into 2 shops with storage above. Built in the late 16th or early 17th century, timber framed, refronted in red brick in the 18th century. Number 4 has two 18th century window surrounds, number 4A has a 20th century shop front. There is an 18th century gabled rear range fronting onto Skinner Street where number 4A has a small shop window. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1145957 Cornhill, Buttermarket and The Traverse are the commercial heart of the town. Cornhill incorporates the market areas set out in the 12th century where twice weekly markets are held, Buttermarket with The Traverse extend to the south connecting with Abbeygate Street and Guildhall Street. The area has some of the town’s finest and most important buildings. 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.

This building in The Traverse Bury St.Edmunds, Suffolk is the former Jessops shop that was forced to close after the fire next door on the 16th of June 2012 see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2997169 for view of the burnt building see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1085861 for a distant view of Jessops and the unburnt building. Jessops opened a new shop in The Arc shopping centre late 2012 see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3293842

This fine town house was originally two timber framed 17th century buildings before being converted into one house with a large shop on the ground floor. It was extensively altered circa 1679 with Baroque-style features, including a wrought-iron balcony and the cupola. At one time, a public house known as The Victoria, it became a bar and restaurant in 2002. A fire in 2012 seriously damaged the building. Restored, it reopened as a restaurant in 2017. Listed, grade II, with much detail and history at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1038264 Cornhill, Buttermarket and The Traverse are the commercial heart of the town. Cornhill incorporates the market areas set out in the 12th century where twice weekly markets are held, Buttermarket with The Traverse extend to the south connecting with Abbeygate Street and Guildhall Street. The area has some of the town’s finest and most important buildings. 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.

Grade I listed. https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101076930-market-cross-bury-st-edmunds