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Churchgate Street, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 1RD

The statutory address is 37 Churchgate Street but the main frontage is to Chequer Square. Probably originally built as a house in the mid 18th century in red brick the building became a public House, The Six Bells Inn. Later it became a Masonic Hall and was converted to residential use in the early 2010s. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1248209 Crown Street is an historic street that starts with a brewery and finishes with a cathedral, has a medieval graveyard, the second largest parish church in the country and houses from the 16th to the 19th centuries. At its north end it opens out to become Chequer Square. 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.

St. Edmundsbury Masonic Hall and Churchgate tower Bury St.Edmunds, Suffolk.

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.

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

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

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 pillar of salt a pre Worboys sign post at Angel Hill Bury St. Edmunds Suffolk. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/289924

For a view of this landmark building see > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2047998.

The statue of King Edmund looking towards the Norman tower Bury St.Edmunds Suffolk http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/286134.

Bury St. Edmunds, Norman Tower. www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm31369