ABSTRACT
Although the eastern arm of the abbey church of Bury, setting of the shrine of St Edmund, was destroyed at the Reformation, there is sufficient archaeological and documentary evidence to determine its design. In this paper, the evidence for the crypt is examined in detail, and from this analysis the plan of the presbytery is inferred. The paper concludes with a discussion of the position of the shrine of St Edmund and its likely design in the late Romanesque period.
