Bury St Edmunds

Bury St Edmunds, locally also called short Bury, is a city (town ) in the County ( County ) Suffolk, England. Originally called Beodericsworth city is the capital of the district of St Edmundsbury and the spiritual center of East Anglia.

The city is known nationwide for the downtown ruins of the beginning of the 11th century, founded the Benedictine Abbey of St Edmund. The abbey, where the last Anglo-Saxon King Edmund is buried ( killed 869 of Ivar Ragnarsson ), developed in the Middle Ages to important place of pilgrimage. Bury St Edmunds is important for the history of Magna Carta: English barons met in 1214 in the Abbey Church and swore an oath to force the King John to grant basic freedoms for the nobility.

The city has grown around the Abbey and developed in the 14th century to a fabrics and fabric manufacturing city. The abbey itself was largely destroyed by the monastery resolutions of the 16th century; nevertheless continued to perform the place, despite its rural location, in the 17th and 18th centuries into a flourishing and prosperous city. This development should not change until the beginning of the industrial revolution. The town suffered a decline and then developed into a market town.

From 1913 next to the abbey, a cathedral (St Edmundsbury Cathedral) was built. In the 1960s, the church building was extended or renewed at the eastern end. By 2004 a new tower ( Millennium Tower ) was built. The church building was completed on 22 July 2005 with a solemn Mass, attended by the Prince of Wales couple, Charles and Camilla took part. Thus, Bury St Edmunds has the only completed in the 21st century cathedral in the UK.

The city has a small theater from the Regency period. Every year in May Bury St Edmunds holds a festival that is accompanied by concerts, plays and dance and concluded with a fireworks display. In addition, the place for the Greene King brewery is known, originally brewed beer for the expatriate to India British.

Bury St Edmunds has been twinned with the German pilgrimage Kevelaer.

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  • Location in Suffolk
  • Catholic pilgrimage site
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