Detail of a mid 12th-century carving of an angel, once part of a door jamb from Bury St Edmunds Abbey, photographed at Moyse's Hall Museum

Date:
24 Jan 2023
Location:
Moyse's Hall Museum, Cornhill, Bury St. Edmunds, St. Edmundsbury, Suffolk
Reference:
DP393273
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

Photographer's note: 'Carving of an angel, c 1140, once part of a door jamb at Bury St Edmunds Abbey. It was discovered in 1952 during repairs to the West Suffolk Hospital in Bury, which had originally been built in 1825 as an armoury, incorporating stone taken from the abbey.'

Content

This is part of the Job: 2K/31357 Objects From Moyse's Hall Museum, Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk; within the Volume: VF000185 English Heritage/Historic England Collections And General Object Photography; within the Series: HEC01/024 English Heritage/Historic England Collections; within the Collection: HEC01 Historic England

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Payne, Patricia: Historic England

Keywords

Stone Carving, Jamb, Museum