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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.
www.stedmunds-bungay.org.uk/history.htm
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