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XXXV. Remarks on the Abbey Church of Bury St. Edmund's in Suffolk. By Edward King, Esquire, in a Letter to the Reverend Mr. Norris, Secretary
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
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Having had an opportunity, the summer before last, of examining with accuracy the foundations of the Abbey Church at St. Edmund's Bury in Suffolk; and having found them to differ somewhat from the plan drawn by Mr. Essex for the late sir James Burroughs, and published at the end of Dr. Battely's Antiquities of Bury, though that plan is indeed in most respects exact, and very curious: I take the liberty to lay before the society a drawing, to shew the difference; and in order to render sir James Burroughs's plan the more compleat and useful. And I the rather venture to do this, because no subsequent account, that I know of, has as yet been given of these Ruins; and because the addition I have made does, moreover, render the plan perfectly consistent with the description given by William of Worcester, which otherwise cannot be understood; and serves to explain an apparent inconsistency in what he says, and to shew that his whole account is exact.
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page 311 note * See Pl. XV.
page 312 note [a] Mr. Essex, on reading this paper, suggested, that the Lady chapel at Ely, built by Bp. Montacute in the reign of Edw. II. is likewise on the north side of the choir. And he suspects that the chapel, which is called St. Mary Magdalen's, at Lincoln, and which is also on the north side of the choir, was in reality, in like manner, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, rather than to Mary Magdalen, as there is no chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary (the great object of worship in those days), at the east end of that cathedral; and as the original Lady Chapel first built there, was only in one of the ailes of the choir. It is true, a church dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen occupied heretofore the scite of the chapel now called after her name at Lincoln; but Mr. Essex suspects, for the above reasons, that this building which succeeded it, was in reality dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and doubts whether its present appellation is not a misnomer, arising merely from the tradition concerning the old church.
page 313 note * See the Philosophical Transactions, vol. LXII. art. 33.
page 314 note * See Pl. XVI.