Bury Saint Edmunds

Bury Saint Edmunds

      town, St. Edmundsbury borough, administrative and historic county of Suffolk, England, northwest of Ipswich on the River Lark.

      At Beodricesworth, as the town was first called, Sigebert, king of the East Angles, is said to have founded a monastery about 630; its end is unknown. In the 10th century the town built a shrine for the remains of St. Edmund, an East Anglian king slain by the Danes in 869; and Canute the Great, king of England and Denmark, founded a Benedictine abbey at St. Edmund's shrine in 1020. The shrine became a place of pilgrimage, and from it the town took its name in the 11th century. Bury St. Edmunds received a royal charter of incorporation in 1606. In the abbey church the barons swore (1214) to compel King John to accept their demands that became enshrined in the Magna Carta. Within the 12th-century precinct wall, several monastic buildings are preserved, including an abbey gate and Norman bell tower. St. James's Church (with a 15th-century nave) became in 1914 the cathedral church of the new bishopric of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich. St. Mary's Church contains the tomb of Mary Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of France. Other notable architectural features include Moyses Hall (a Norman house preserved as a museum) and several fine Georgian buildings, including the Town Hall (c. 1780) by Robert Adam.

      Situated in the grain-raising district of East Anglia, Bury St. Edmunds is an important agricultural market and rural service centre; its industries include brewing, processing of beet sugar, and other related agricultural engineering concerns. Pop. (2001) 36,218.

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