Norman Tower Bury St. Edmunds, England
Listed Building Data
Norman Tower 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1375555
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 7 August 1952
- Name
- NORMAN TOWER
- Location
- NORMAN TOWER, ABBEY PRECINCTS
- Parish
- Bury St. Edmunds
- District
- St. Edmundsbury
- County
- Suffolk
- Grid Reference
- TL 85572 64078
- Easting
- 585572.0000
- Northing
- 264078.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SE ABBEY PRECINCTS 639-1/8/104 Norman Tower 07/08/52
GV I
Monastic gate, now used as a belfry for the Cathedral Church of St James (qv). Built under Abbot Anselm between 1120 and 1148; Romanesque. Restored by LN Cottingham in 1846/7. Barnack stone. Rectangular, in 4 stages, with the base now well below the present ground level. Richly ornamented. A large, unvaulted gateway has heavy block capitals to the columns and large roll-mouldings. The west face is the most ornate, with a sculptured inner order and the arch projecting like a porch with a gable and fishscale decoration. To each side of the gateway are 2 tiers of niches with billet decoration; short buttresses above have intersecting arches and pyramid roofs. The 2nd stage has 2 tall blank arches with small 2-light windows within them. The 3rd and 4th stages each have 3 deep window openings, divided by colonnettes and hood-moulds with billet decoration: below the 3rd stage openings are paired blank arches; below the 4th stage blank roundels. The details of the 3 upper stages on the west are repeated on each of the other faces. Scheduled Ancient Monument. (BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 138).
Listing NGR: TL8557264078
