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Out Westgate, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 3PA

Viewrd from junction Cullum Road and Out Westgate

The district church of St Peter is attached to the parish church of St Mary. Built in 1858 in knapped flint and stone in High Victorian Early English style. Most of the original internal fittings have remained. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1022563 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.

On Hospital Road.

Built in the 1850s and recently modernised it is, unlike most other churches in Bury, locked against the visitor.

St.Peter's Church, Hospital Road, Bury St.Edmunds, Suffolk. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/294755 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/294763