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architectural antiquities.
for two years was beheaded. The monument and vault beneath now belong to the
Right Honourable George Rose.
The altar-piece in this church is a curious specimen of ancient sculpture : a view
of which, with an ample account by the Rev. Dr. Milner, are contained in Carter's
"Ancient Sculpture and Painting," vol. ii.—A particular description of some repairs
and restorations made in the church, in the course of last year, under the direction
of the Rev. Mr. Bingley, is printed in the Gentleman's Magazine, for June, 1810.
END OF THE ACCOUNT OF CHRIST CHURCH.
§3>t James's Cotoer, or Cfmrcf) <0atc,
st. edmund's bury.
by the rev. richard yates, b. d. and f. s. a.
This noble structure was the grand portal into the church-yard, opposite to the
western entrance of the monasterial church of St. Edmund. Being built near St-
James's Church, in the wall that surrounded the monastery, it was, at the dissolu-
tion, converted into a belfry for that church ; and to this circumstance, most proba-
bly, the antiquary is indebted for the gratification of now surveying this venerable
relic of ancient piety and taste : appropriation to its present use having shielded it
from the destructive hand of plundering rapacity.
No written document has yet been discovered that ascertains, with any tolerable
certainty and precision, the exact period of its erection. The first notice we have
of any considerable building at Bury is, that about A. D. 637, Sigbercth, King of
East Anglia, took the religious habit in the monastery he had founded at Bedericks-
worth. To this monastery, as to a more suitable depositary, the body of the royal
martyr, St. Edmund, was, A. D. 903, translated from Hoxne; but even this more
splendid habitation appears, from several of the monastic writers, to have been built
of wood—" maximam miro ligneo tabulata ecclesiam"—as one of them expresses it.
The first royal charter was granted to this establishment by Edmund, father to
King Edgar, A. D. 945 ; and it continued in the hands of the secular clergy till the
architectural antiquities.
for two years was beheaded. The monument and vault beneath now belong to the
Right Honourable George Rose.
The altar-piece in this church is a curious specimen of ancient sculpture : a view
of which, with an ample account by the Rev. Dr. Milner, are contained in Carter's
"Ancient Sculpture and Painting," vol. ii.—A particular description of some repairs
and restorations made in the church, in the course of last year, under the direction
of the Rev. Mr. Bingley, is printed in the Gentleman's Magazine, for June, 1810.
END OF THE ACCOUNT OF CHRIST CHURCH.
§3>t James's Cotoer, or Cfmrcf) <0atc,
st. edmund's bury.
by the rev. richard yates, b. d. and f. s. a.
This noble structure was the grand portal into the church-yard, opposite to the
western entrance of the monasterial church of St. Edmund. Being built near St-
James's Church, in the wall that surrounded the monastery, it was, at the dissolu-
tion, converted into a belfry for that church ; and to this circumstance, most proba-
bly, the antiquary is indebted for the gratification of now surveying this venerable
relic of ancient piety and taste : appropriation to its present use having shielded it
from the destructive hand of plundering rapacity.
No written document has yet been discovered that ascertains, with any tolerable
certainty and precision, the exact period of its erection. The first notice we have
of any considerable building at Bury is, that about A. D. 637, Sigbercth, King of
East Anglia, took the religious habit in the monastery he had founded at Bedericks-
worth. To this monastery, as to a more suitable depositary, the body of the royal
martyr, St. Edmund, was, A. D. 903, translated from Hoxne; but even this more
splendid habitation appears, from several of the monastic writers, to have been built
of wood—" maximam miro ligneo tabulata ecclesiam"—as one of them expresses it.
The first royal charter was granted to this establishment by Edmund, father to
King Edgar, A. D. 945 ; and it continued in the hands of the secular clergy till the