The Norman Gateway of The Abbey, once among the richest Benedictine monasteries in England, until the Dissolution of the monasteries in 1539. It was the burial place of the Anglo-Saxon martyr-king Saint Edmund, killed by the Great Heathen Army of Danes in 869 and became a centre of pilgrimage, Suffolk, England

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Location: Bury St Edmunds, Bury Saint Edmunds, UK
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