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Athenaeum Lane, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 1LY

Old building on the corner of Church gate street and Angel hill Bury St.Edmunds Suffolk.

Looking across from the entrance to Abbey Gardens towards Abbeygate Street.

Looking across the square towards Abbeygate Street.

Looking towards Angel Hill and The Athenaeum from Churchgate Street.

Numbers 5 and 6 Athenaeum Lane are a pair of late 18th or early 19th century houses in stuccoed brick. 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.

Described as Abbot Anselm's Institute, the house has been divided into 4 flats, numbers 1 to 4 Anselm Court. The main frontage, seen here, is onto Angel Hill but the access is from Athenaeum Lane. The 17th century timber framed and rendered house has been altered in the 18th and later centuries. The ground floor brick is probably an underbuilding of a former jetty. Listed, for group value, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1377005 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.

The new home of Lord and Lady Tebbit http://www.buryfreepress.co.uk/news/Lord-Tebbitt-moves-in.4951561.jp

Old door Athenaeum Lane Bury St.Edmunds Suffolk.

The Great West Window of Image] is in the Perpendicular Gothic style in conformity with the rest of the cathedral. I would guess that the glass is Victorian or Edwardian.

Number 36 Churchgate Street was built circa 1815 in red brick. There is a short side frontage to Athenaeum Lane. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1248208 Churchgate Street is aligned with the Norman Tower entrance to the Abbey and would have been the ceremonial route between the Abbey and the Guildhall, the spiritual and the temporal. The street has some of the town’s most important historic buildings with structures dating back to the 13th 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.