The body of St. Edmund reposed in a basilica of wood until Canute, in a kingly spirit, animositate regia, raised a stone church to the honour of the martyr, which Egelnothus Archbishop of Canterbury, dedicated, with pomp, in 1032: and it is a remarkable fact in the history of our ecclesiastical architecture, that within half a century after the erection of this church it was pronounced unworthy of the improvement which had at that time taken place in the art of building. Baldwin, Abbot of St. Edmund's, under the auspices of the Conqueror, laid the foundations of another church, because, says the monk Hermannus, a contemporary, hœc quoque simplici facta schemate, non sic artificalis ut quœdam construuntur hoc tempore. The Presbytery of Baldwin's church, by the same author compared for magnificence to Solomon's Temple, was consecrated in 1095.