Discovering Bury St Edmunds

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🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The historic cathedral town of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk may well be familiar to listeners to Gone Medieval - perhaps from our episode 'Saint Edmuntd: England's Lost King' or the town’s mention during our hunt for the 'Viking Great Heathen Army' on Dan Snow's History Hit. In its heyday, Bury St Edmunds served as a significant and life-changing place of pilgrimage. In this episode of Gone Medieval, Cat is on location, exploring Bury St Edmunds’ landmarks, including what was one of the richest and largest Benedictine monasteries in England. She’s joined by archaeologist Adrian Tindall, Chair of the Bury St Edmunds Association of Registered Tour Guides.

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0:35.2	Hello and welcome to today's episode of Gone Medievals from History Hit. I'm Dr Cat Jarman.
0:42.1	Today I'm out on the road again and this time I've headed east to Berry St Edmunds to visit the
0:48.8	Abbey here and learn more about its remarkable medieval history. This Abbey was one of the richest
0:55.2	and most powerful Benedictine monasteries in all of England. It was a hugely important site of
1:00.8	pilgrimage and has a quite surprising story is attached to it. I've been lucky enough to get a
1:07.3	tour with someone who knows all of a lot about the site. Adrian Tyndall, who has a background as
1:12.0	an archaeologist and is now the chair of the Berry St Edmunds Association of Registered Tour Guides
1:17.5	and he's also the acting chair of Abbey of St Edmund Heritage Partnership Research Group.
1:22.4	So I don't think there's much that Adrian doesn't know about this Abbey.
1:27.5	Some of the eager listeners may remember a bit about Berry St Edmunds from a previous episode,
1:33.0	one with Dr Francis Young on St Edmund himself and also the Abbey and Edmund
1:39.6	cropped up in a crossover episode I recorded with Dan Snow over on Dan Snow's History Hit a
1:44.3	little while ago when we went in search for the Viking Great Army across the country.
1:49.0	So when you listen to this do search out those two to find more about the Viking link especially
1:54.1	and the possibility that St Edmund who's bones are now lost may well be buried here.
2:00.9	But today it's all about the Abbey so do come along for a tour just to let you know it's
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