BUNGAY PRIORY CHURCH

Suffolk

Benedictine Friars

Directly across the road from Bungay Castle is the bulk of St. Mary’s Church. It was constructed quite late for such a church, in the 15th Century, when it was the church for a Benedictine Priory. Although only a small Priory the church possesses a particularly grand tower which can be seen for miles.

Alas, the timing was not good, and it wasn’t very many years before Henry VIII Dissolved the Monasteries and Bungay’s short-lived Priory was one of the earlier ones to go. There are some remnants of the non-church buildings in the churchyard, but mostly it was only the church which survived as Parish Church for the village.

A terrible fire swept through Bungay in 1688 which destroyed much of the town and gutted the interior of the church, so most of what is inside is Georgian or Victorian.

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