Site Event/Activity record ESF22220 - Monitoring - St Mary's Church Meeting Room, Bungay

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Location

Location St Mary's Church, Bungay
Grid reference Centred TM 33661 89725 (29m by 22m)
Map sheet TM38NW
Civil Parish BUNGAY, WAVENEY, SUFFOLK

Technique(s)

Organisation

Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service

Date

Not recorded.

Map

Description

Archaeological monitoring of the groundworks for the installation of toilets and the construction of a meeting room at St Mary's Church, Bungay produced evidence of a flint footing possibly for a previous version of the building together with an earlier clay floor. Burials that may pre-date the existing nave suggest that the current church encroached over part of the graveyard when it was re-built in the 15th century were also found, along with evidence of the remedial work carried out on the church after the great fire of Bungay in 1688. In the graveyard an earlier perimeter wall built just inside the current boundary was found. The earlier wall constructed in c.15th century was built over an existing burial without disturbing the skeletal remains and demonstrates how the graveyard edge has fluctuated over time (S1).

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <S1> Unpublished document: Gill, D.. 2013. Archaeological Monitoring Report, St Mary's Church Meeting Room, Bungay.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • Burials at St Mary's Church, Bungay (Monument)

Record last edited

Feb 2 2018 1:47PM

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