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Churchgate Street, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 1RH

Number 54 Churchgate Street is one of a pair of semi-detached houses built in white brick in the early 19th century. The brick has been painted. Listed, along with number 53 Image, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1248216 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.

Numbers 55 (seen here) and 56 Churchgate Street Image were one house, divided into two. Built in the early or mid 16th century timber framed and stuccoed. Number 55 contains the service area and hall of the original house with a cross-entry between them and number 56 contains the parlour, with a fine exposed timber ceiling to the ground storey room. There is a 17th century rear extension and the building was refronted in the early 19th century when a jetty along the street frontage was underbuilt, leaving only a minimal overhang. Listed, along with number 56, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1248217 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.

Numbers 56 (seen here) and 55 Churchgate Street Image were one house, divided into two. Built in the early or mid 16th century timber framed and stuccoed. Number 55 contains the service area and hall of the original house with a cross-entry between them and number 56 contains the parlour, with a fine exposed timber ceiling to the ground storey room. There is a 17th century rear extension and the building was refronted in the early 19th century when a jetty along the street frontage was underbuilt, leaving only a minimal overhang. Listed, along with number 55, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1248217 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.

Number 57 Churchgate Street was built in the early 19th century in white brick, painted on the ground floor. There is a 20th century rear extension. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1248218 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.

A notice outside the Unitarian Meeting House seen at Image 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.

Number 53 Churchgate Street is one of a pair of semi-detached houses built in white brick in the early 19th century. The side wall is rendered and one of the upper floor windows is blocked. Listed, along with number 54 Image, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1248216 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.

Number 58 Churchgate Street is 16th century, timber framed and refronted in white brick in the early 19th century. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1248219 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.

Numbers 13. 14 and 15 Churchgate Street are a terrace of three houses built in the early 19th century. The frontages are in white brick, the rears in red brick. Number 15 has a later 19th century rear extension and number 13 has a former shop window. Number 15 has a coach house and stabling behind. Some original internal features remain. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1248113 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.

This superb Unitarian Meeting House was built in 1711 as a Presbyterian Chapel. In red brick with a moulded brick cornice, a parapet with a cornice and moulded brick panels and a sundial in a circular moulded brick frame. There is an elliptical lunette above the entrance doorway and two full height semicircular-headed windows. Inside all the fittings are of high quality with a gallery on 3 sides, with a central pillar supporting the roof. The congregation has been Unitarian sine the late 18th century. The Meeting House was restored from 1967 to 1991. Listed, grade I, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1248301 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 range containing numbers 16 and 17 Churchgate Street was originally one 4 bay house. Built in the 16th century, timber framed and stuccoed with a jettied front, it was divided into two in the early 19th century with number 16 having one and a half bays and number 17 the remainder. The bay window to number 16 is 18th century, the shop window to number 17 is early 19th century. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1248114 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.