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Abbey 1000 promises a series of exciting events to celebrate the
millennium of the Abbey of St Edmund. - Credit: Rebecca Austin

Anniversary Tours
April 1 - November 20
Bury St Edmunds Town Guides’ season of daily town walks, plus tours
focusing on various aspects of the Abbey and St Edmund, bring to life
the significance and enormity of the Abbey, shedding light on what life
was like for those living within its walls as well as for those on the
outside. Special tours have also been devised for children.
burystedmundstourguides.org

Bury St Edmunds BioBlitz
May 20 & 21
In the Abbey Gardens and Water Meadows, Bury St Edmunds, hunt for
as many species of plant, insect and animal that can be found.

Abbey 1000 Concert
May 28
St Edmundsbury Cathedral IP33 1LS
Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra plays Elgar’s Enigma
Variations; Britten: Fanfare for St Edmundsbury; Parry: I Was Glad; Paul
Carr: Into The Light, the world première of a new work specially
commissioned for Abbey 1000. suffolkphil.org

Abbey 1000 Sculpture Exhibition
May 1 - November 30
The Abbey Crypt, The Abbey Gardens, Mustow Street IP33 1X
A monthly changing display of sculptures on display where the shrine
of St Edmund would have stood. Schools and artists are being invited
to create artworks on a theme of the story of the Abbey and St
Edmund. Among the sculptures will be The Monk designed by Nigel
Kaines and created by Kevin Baldwin of Designs on Metal.

Secrets Of The Abbey: History Returns - Exhibition Of Manuscripts
May 2 -June 9

Seven manuscripts from the Abbey Scriptorium are being reunited for
the first time in their place of origin since 1539. Written and decorated
by hand by monks in the Abbey, they will be displayed in the Cathedral
Treasury. The manuscripts are on loan from Pembroke College,
Cambridge where they were donated by William Smart (Portreeve of
Ipswich) in 1599. stedscathedral.org/abbey-1000-events