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Latitude: 52.2436 / 52°14'36"N
Longitude: 0.7167 / 0°43'0"E
OS Eastings: 585572
OS Northings: 264078
OS Grid: TL855640
Mapcode National: GBR QF0.80N
Mapcode Global: VHKD4.CVRY
Plus Code: 9F426PV8+CM
Entry Name: Norman Tower
Listing Date: 7 August 1952
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375555
English Heritage Legacy ID: 466456
Also known as: The Norman Tower
ID on this website: 101375555
Location: 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: Bury St Edmunds St Mary
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Tagged with: Tower Church building
BURY ST EDMUNDS
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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
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