Description

TL8564SE
639-1/8/102
07/08/52

BURY ST EDMUNDS
ABBEY PRECINCTS
Ruins of Hall of Pleas and south wall of Great Court
(Formerly Listed as:
ABBEY PRECINCTS Abbey Ruins)

GV
I

The surviving part of the south wall of the Great Court of the
Abbey with the remains of the Hall of Pleas on its south side.
Late C12 with C13 additions. In rubble and coursed flint with
dressings of Barnack stone.
The crenellated wall, which stands to full height and is 66
metres long, now forms in part the garden wall on the south
side of Abbey House (qv). It has a keeled string-course and
ashlar-faced stepped buttresses along the north side and a
splayed ashlar-faced section by the north-east corner. The
south face, which formed the north wall of the Hall of Pleas,
has the remains of a row of high blocked windows and a
doorway: its C13 surround is completely replaced on the south
but survives intact on the north: there the pointed arch has
jambs with a continuous multiple moulding and the moulded
hood-mould is surmounted by the head of a bearded man. 20
metres of the east wall of the Hall of Pleas also survive,
standing almost to full height with the remains of flat
buttresses and a wide segmental-arched recess on the west
side.
Scheduled Ancient Monument.
(BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 140).

Listing NGR: TL8559564177

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17526834

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)