Welcome to Bury

The High Street in Bury as viewed from the Church

 

The village and parish of Bury in Huntingdonshire.

Bury is one of the parishes of the District of Huntingdonshire, whose administrative centre is Huntingdon, the other principle towns being St Ives home of the Chapel on the Bridge, St Neots the largest town in the County of Cambridgeshire, the Roman town of Godmanchester and Ramsey site of the former Abbey.

Surrounded by later additions Bury has a few timbered houses perhaps 300 years old, a manor house of the kind Shakespeare knew, and a church on a little hill looking over the Fens.

Eight centuries have passed over the church, to which the Normans gave a doorway of great boldness and strength. The 14th century chancel is seen through an arch with capitals of diamonds and scrolls by Norman sculptors. The font is Norman on a 13th Century stem, and the Norman doorway brings us to a 13th century tower remarkable for its magnificent lancets, a simple but beautiful parapet, and lovely niches in the buttresses. At the west side of the tower are fragments of walls from a now vanished chapel.
 

 

Are you organising an event in Bury?

If you are, then you may use the link just below and add the details directly into the Huntingdonshire Event Diary.