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Honey Hill, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 1RT

Number 1 and 2 Honey Hill are a pair of adjoining houses designed as one. Built in the early 19th century in white brick with a wide gable to the street. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1022544 Honey Hill, with its wealth of history used to finish at Sparhawk Street from thereon it was known as Schoolhall Street when the Abbey’s song school was here. The Abbey’s St Margarets Gate was taken down to allow free passage into The Great Churchyard. 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 3 and 3A Honey Hill were originally one house, now divided into two. Built straddling the Abbey's precinct wall - a thick wall of rubble flint between the front and rear rooms of the house which also extends northwards for several metres at the rear of the house. Built in the 17th century, extended in the 18th century refronted in the 19th century with later 19th century additions. Some fine 18th century internal plasterwork remains. Used as offices by Suffolk County Council for some decades, the houses were restored in 1991. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1022545 Honey Hill, with its wealth of history used to finish at Sparhawk Street from thereon it was known as Schoolhall Street when the Abbey’s song school was here. The Abbey’s St Margaret's Gate was taken down to allow free passage into The Great Churchyard. 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 6A Honey Hill is early 19th century, built in a mixture of stone blocks and red brick with the front to Honey Hill stuccoed. The return wall to Sparhawk Street is in three sections, separated by straight joints with stone quoining, and suggests that the building developed in stages. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1022549 Honey Hill, with its wealth of history used to finish at Sparhawk Street from thereon it was known as Schoolhall Street when the Abbey’s song school was here. The Abbey’s St Margarets Gate was taken down to allow free passage into The Great Churchyard. 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 Denys, number 6 Honey Hill has a 15th century front range and may have been a Wealden house. The front in ashlar was added in the later 18th century. There is a long 17th century rear range which may have been in industrial use rather than domestic. Listed, grade II*, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1022548 Honey Hill, with its wealth of history used to finish at Sparhawk Street from thereon it was known as Schoolhall Street when the Abbey’s song school was here. The Abbey’s St Margarets Gate was taken down to allow free passage into The Great Churchyard. 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 can be found on the wall of St Mary's Church in Bury St Edmunds. For more detail see : http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm63182

The tomb of Mary Tudor in St. Mary's Church. The plaque on the wall reads: Sacred to the Memory of Mary Tudor, Third Daughter of Henry 7th King of England, and Queen of France; Who was first married in 1514, to Lewis 12th. King of France, and afterwards in 1517, to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk. She died in His Life Time in 1533, at the Manor of Westhorp in this County and was interred in the same Year in the Monastery of St Edmund's Bury, and was removed into this Church, after the Dissolution of the Abbey. Mary Tudor was the sister of Henry VIII, who named the warship Mary Rose after her.

Mary Tudor (1496-1533) was the fifth child of seven born to Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, though only four survived infancy. Her eldest brother, Arthur died aged 15, so her next eldest brother, Henry ascended the throne in 1509 as Henry VIII. Mary had been born on 18th March 1496 and Henry wished to find a politically advantageous match for his young sister. Their elder sister, Margaret, had already married James IV of Scotland bringing to an end centuries of conflict between the two countries and was thus the great-grandmother of James VI of Scotland and First of England. Henry arranged that Mary should marry King Louis XII of France despite his being 34 years older than her. They were married on 9th October 1514 when she was just 18. Mary therefore became Queen of France - but not for long, as Louis died on New Year's Day 1515, less than three months later. Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk was sent to negotiate Mary's return to England, but having succeeded, the two secretly married. Henry was furious about this marriage without his consent, but eventually forgave the couple after a huge fine had been paid by them (including all the jewels she had received on her marriage to the French king). Mary died aged 37, at Westhorpe Hall, Suffolk, on 25 June 1533 after several years of illness. She was buried first within the precincts of the Abbey Church of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, however on the Dissolution of the Monasteries a new resting place was required for the king's sister, so she was transported a few hundred yards to the church of St Mary. A plaque (of later date than the re-interment) above the tomb states (spelling and capitalization reproduced): "Sacred to the Memory of MARY TUDOR, Third Dau'r of Henry ye 7th KING of ENGLAND, and QUEEN of FRANCE; Who was first married in 1514, to LEWIS ye 12th KING of FRANCE, and afterwards in 1517, to CHARLES BRANDON DUKE of SUFFOLK. She died in His Life Time in 1533, at ye Manor of WESTHORP in this County and was interr'd in ye same Year in ye Monastery of ST ENDMUND'S BURY, and was removed into this Church, after ye Dissolution of the Abbey." This slab above her tomb is to be found to the left of the altar in the chancel of St Mary's.

The chancel of St Mary's, Bury St Edmunds with its fine East Window. Immediately to the left of the altar can be seen Image]