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Angel Hill, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 1LS

Looking past the Cathedral Shop towards the Abbey Gateway on a sunny January morning.

Built up against a section of the precinct wall of the former abbey, Abbey House, number 30 Angel Hill, has a late 16th century timber framed core to part, an 18th and 19th century front to Angel Hill with an 18th century rear facing Abbey Gardens. Built circa 1720 the house is now the cathedral office. Listed, grade II*, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1141178 Now used as a car park, Angel Hill the traditional market place was, until the 1870s, home to the famous Bury Fair. People from Europe and across the Far East came to buy and sell. 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.

Looking towards the Cathedral from the corner of Abbeygate Street on a bright February afternoon,

The block of 3 storey buildings, numbers 31, 32 and 33 Angel Hill were three separate early to mid 19th century houses with shops in white brick, now combined into one property. The rear of the building incorporates a section of the precinct wall of the former abbey of St Edmund which rises to the level of the 2nd storey. In recent years the ground floor has been a restaurant, the cathedral discovery centre and an art gallery. Listed, grade II*, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1141179 The two storey property beyond, number 34 Angel Hill, was a house and shop now a shop with offices above. The building has a timber framed 16th century core which was refronted in brick in the early 19th century. The shop front is late 20th century and is currently the cathedral shop. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1376998 Now used as a car park, Angel Hill the traditional market place was, until the 1870s, home to the famous Bury Fair. People from Europe and across the Far East came to buy and sell. 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.

Looking east along Robert Boby Way Bury St.Edmunds with the new tower of St.Edmundsbury Cathedral

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