The 14th-century Abbeygate at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, which leads to the Abbey Gardens and the ruins of the original abbey
Bury St Edmunds Abbey dates back to 633 AD. Edmund became King of East Anglia in 855, aged 15, and was killed by invading Danes in 869. Legend says that, despite torture he refused to renounce his Catholic faith, and so he died a martyr and the Abbey was renamed in his honour. St Edmund was held to be the patron saint of England before St George. The relationship between the Benedictine monks and the people of Bury was not always good - in 1327, violent riots broke out and the Abbey Gate was destroyed. The current gate dates from the 14th century. The Abbey fell to Henry VIII’s dissolution in 1539 with just St James and St Mary’s churches, the Abbey Gate and the Norman Tower surviving intact.
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Location: Bury St Edmunds Suffolk England
Photo credit: © Olivia Abbott / Alamy / Afripics
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