Athenaeum, Bury St Edmunds Explained

The Athenaeum is a Grade I listed building and a major venue in Bury St Edmunds, England. Even before substantial rebuilding the site was used as an Assembly Rooms for the town in the eighteenth century. The building was rebuilt in 1789 and further developed in 1804 under a subscription scheme established by its new owner, James Oakes.^[1] Lord Arthur Hervey founded the Athenaeum in 1853, originally operating out of Bury St Edmunds Guildhall. In 1854 the organisation moved into the former Assembly Rooms, since then the building has been known as the Athenaeum.^[2]

The building and its attached railings are a Grade I listed building.^[3]

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Notes and References

1. Web site: The Athenaeum, Bury St Edmunds . Suffolk Archives . Suffolk County Council . 19 November 2021.
2. S. J. . Plunkett . 1998 . The Suffolk Institute of Archaeology: Its Life, Times and Members . Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History . 39 . 165–207 .
3. Web site: Athenaeum and attached railings, Bury St. Edmunds. historicengland.org.uk . Historic England . 5 December 2021 . en.