Bawsey – a ‘productive’ site in west Norfolk

Households of St Edmund

“…43 Bury's own distinctive archive, with its preponderance of vernacular texts recording small donations from local people, together with the evidence of the abbey's landholdings in the Domesday Book, demonstrate the intensity of the regionalism of the cult of St Edmund and the extent to which devotion to the saint pervaded all of East Anglian society. 44 Care of the saint's relics and the maintenance of a regular liturgical cycle of prayer and devotion lay in the hands of the family of priests, later monks, who lived in the church of St Edmund at Beodrkesworth, later Bury…”