Ælfhun, Bishop of Dunwich - Sudbury, Suffolk
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Aelfhun Bishop of Dunwich. Died at Sudbury A797D .
Sitting figure of Bishop Aelfhun, in a praying position. The statue is to celebrate Sudbury being the oldest recorded town in Suffolk, to which they have Bishop Aelfhun to thank.
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Date Posted: 09/01/2014
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"Aelfhun Bishop of Dunwich. Died at Sudbury A797D
Sitting figure of Bishop Aelfhun, in a praying position. He has his hands held together in front of him holding a crook. He is wearing traditional Bishops head wear, and is covered in a cloak. the statue is on top of a pedestal made from red brick. the whole piece is surrounded by a semi-circle of foliage.
The statue is to celebrate Sudbury being the oldest recorded town in Suffolk, to which they have Bishop Aelfhun to thank. He came to to Sudbury in 797AD, and consequently died there, this news made it into the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles in 797AD, the first record of a town in suffolk."
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Alhun (Alfhun, Aelhun, Or Aelfhun) was the eighth bishop of Dunwich, was consecrated about A.D. 790. He subcribed several charters of Offa between that year and 793. He died in 797 at Sudbury, and was buried at Dunwich.
The Saxon Chronicle records the town of Sudbury as Suthberie ("south-borough"), presumed to distinguish it from Norwich or Bury St Edmunds, to the North. The town is also mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, as a market town where the local people came to barter their goods. The market was established in 1009.