IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Northgate Street, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 1HR

A turning off Northgate Street.

County arms are visible above the door.

The old former county school Northgate street Bury St.Edmunds Suffolk for an old view see http://www.burypastandpresent.org.uk/bg/BRO_K505_2046.jpg old view taken from see http://www.burypastandpresent.org.uk/index.htm

This building was an extension to the West Suffolk Grammar School and later The West Suffolk College of Further Education. Now occupied as apartments. See also Image Listed, grade II with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1365771 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.

Number 110 Northgate Street, now known as Regent House and used as offices, was built as a house in the early or mid 18th century and subsequently became the main block of the West Suffolk Grammar School and later The West Suffolk College of Further Education. Later extended on both sides with the northern extension now occupied as apartments. See also Image Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1365771 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.

Manson House, number 111 Northgate Street is now a residential care home. Built in the 16th and 17th centuries, timber framed, encased in red brick in the 18th century and with later additions to both ends and to the rear. There are many fine original internal features and the building contains stone from the Abbey. Listed, grade II*, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1365772 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.