Abbey Gate Bury St. Edmunds, England
Listed Building Data
The Abbey Gate has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1375545
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 7 August 1952
- Name
- ABBEY GATE AND GATEHOUSE
- Location
- ABBEY GATE AND GATEHOUSE, ABBEY PRECINCTS
- Parish
- Bury St. Edmunds
- District
- St. Edmundsbury
- County
- Suffolk
- Grid Reference
- TL 85544 64220
- Easting
- 585544.0000
- Northing
- 264220.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
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
