Latitude: 52.2449 / 52°14'41"N
Longitude: 0.7164 / 0°42'58"E
OS Eastings: 585544
OS Northings: 264220
OS Grid: TL855642
Mapcode National: GBR QF0.7XQ
Mapcode Global: VHKD4.CTKY
Plus Code: 9F426PV8+XG
Entry Name: Abbey Gate and Gatehouse
Listing Date: 7 August 1952
Last Amended: 30 October 1997
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375545
English Heritage Legacy ID: 466446
Also known as: Abbey Gatehouse, Bury St Edmunds
ID on this website: 101375545
Location: Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds, West Suffolk, IP33
County: Suffolk
District: West Suffolk
Civil Parish: Bury St Edmunds
Built-Up Area: Bury St Edmunds
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: St James Bury St Edmunds
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Tagged with: Tower Gatehouse English Gothic architecture
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SE ABBEY PRECINCTS
639-1/8/96 Abbey Gate and Gatehouse
07/08/52
(Formerly Listed as:
ABBEY PRECINCTS
Abbey Gateway and Gatehouse)
GV I
The great gate of the Abbey of St Edmund. Begun after the
riots of 1327 but before 1346; completed after 1353. Barnack
stone.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and battlements. The west facade is richly
decorated: a broad segmental entrance arch has 3 niches over
it and a large ogee gable above has foiled circles to left and
right. Buttresses to each side with ogee-headed steeply gabled
niches in 3 tiers, the top tier relating to the upper storey,
which has 5 tall blank niches. The taller centre niche has a
crocketed gable, flanked by 2 circles containing 6-pointed
stars. The east facade has a shafted doorway: leaf capitals to
the shafts and an arch with a double quadrant moulding. A
large transomed 3-light window to the upper storey. The
entrance arch leads from the Angel Hill into an outer chamber
with a longer principal chamber beyond it; between them are
C17 timber gates with heavy outsize dumb-bell balusters.
INTERIOR: the inner side walls of both chambers have large
blank arches with bold flowing tracery; both originally had
vaulting with ribs and tiercerons, now fragmentary. The
principal chamber on the upper storey has the remains of an
original fireplace.
Scheduled Ancient Monument.
(BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 138;
Official Guidebook: Whittingham AB: Bury St Edmunds Abbey:
London, HMSO: 1971-: 29).
Listing NGR: TL8554464220
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