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The parish of St Edmund,
King and Martyr, grew out of the Flixton Mission.
An English Benedictine priest, William Walgrave,
lived at Flixton Hall, three miles from Bungay, from
1657 until his death in 1665.
Later in the 18th century,
Flixton Hall passed into Protestant hands and the
‘Priest's House’ in the village was built by the
family for the use of the Benedictine missioners.
The Mission continued in Flixton until, in 1821,
some land in the centre of Bungay, which had been
part of the site of the mediaeval Benedictine convent
there, was donated to the Mission by its owner, the
Duke of Norfolk.
The first Catholic chapel
in Bungay since the Reformation was opened in 1823.
which was replaced, onceit had become too small,
the present, more ornate church and presbytery in
1891.
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