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Maynewater Square, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 2AD

Housing built in 1868 for workers at the nearby Greene King Brewery.

Stretching along Maynewater Lane for some 260 yards (240 metres) is the boundary wall of the St Edmund Hospital. In kidney flint with random old red brick and divided into bays by rudimentary brick pilasters. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1022593 Westgate Street is the southernmost street of the medieval grid and it is mainly about the Greene King Brewery with so many of the buildings constructed for its processes or for its employees. In addition to the brewery there is a rich mix of historic buildings in diverse materials, including white brick, red brick and stucco render. The street has the only surviving intact Regency theatre. 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 1 Westgate Street in High Victorian Gothic by Lot Jackaman, who built the Corn Exchange. Dated 1884 the house. in random knapped flint and sandstone, is designed to advertise his building skills. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1141925 Westgate Street is the southernmost street of the medieval grid and it is mainly about the Greene King Brewery with so many of the buildings constructed for its processes or for its employees. In addition to the brewery there is a rich mix of historic buildings in diverse materials, including white brick, red brick and stucco render. The street has the only surviving intact Regency theatre. 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.

Accessed off Westgate Street is the St Edmund Hospital. Built as a house, later used as a hotel and now a private hospital and nursing home. Constructed in the early/mid 18th century, altered and extended in the 19th century. There are a mixture of 18th and early 19th centuries internal features and evidence of changes of layout. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1135174 Westgate Street is the southernmost street of the medieval grid and it is mainly about the Greene King Brewery with so many of the buildings constructed for its processes or for its employees. In addition to the brewery there is a rich mix of historic buildings in diverse materials, including white brick, red brick and stucco render. The street has the only surviving intact Regency theatre. 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 2, 4 and 5 Westgate Street were originally a terrace of four houses which became three when numbers 3 and 4 were combined. Built in the early 19th century in white brick. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1141931 Westgate Street is the southernmost street of the medieval grid and it is mainly about the Greene King Brewery with so many of the buildings constructed for its processes or for its employees. In addition to the brewery there is a rich mix of historic buildings in diverse materials, including white brick, red brick and stucco render. The street has the only surviving intact Regency theatre. 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 Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk the only surviving Regency playhouse in Britain in the safe hands of the National Trust. For more info see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Bury_St_Edmunds and for their web site see http://secure.theatreroyal.org/PEO/site/home/index.php?

The interior of the theatre taken from the "Gods" during a National Trust tour. http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/theatre-royal/

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