<P> The Abbey of Bury St Edmunds was once among the richest Benedictine monasteries in England , until the Dissolution of the monasteries in 1539 . It is in the town that grew up around it , Bury St Edmunds in the county of Suffolk , England . It was a centre of pilgrimage as the burial place of the Anglo - Saxon martyr - king Saint Edmund , killed by the Great Heathen Army of Danes in 869 . The ruins of the abbey church and most other buildings are merely rubble cores , but two very large medieval gatehouses survive , as well as two secondary medieval churches built within the abbey complex . </P>
<P> The Abbey of Bury St Edmunds was once among the richest Benedictine monasteries in England , until the Dissolution of the monasteries in 1539 . It is in the town that grew up around it , Bury St Edmunds in the county of Suffolk , England . It was a centre of pilgrimage as the burial place of the Anglo - Saxon martyr - king Saint Edmund , killed by the Great Heathen Army of Danes in 869 . The ruins of the abbey church and most other buildings are merely rubble cores , but two very large medieval gatehouses survive , as well as two secondary medieval churches built within the abbey complex . </P>
who was buried at the place now known as bury st edmunds
who was buried at the place now known as bury st edmunds
Anglo - Saxon martyr - king Saint Edmund
Anglo - Saxon martyr - king Saint Edmund