Volume: Bury St Edmunds Abbey, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Description

236 drawings of Bury St Edmunds Abbey dating from the 1920s to the early 1990s, and including thirty oversized sheets. The earliest drawings were made in the 1920s by the Ministry of Works from earlier plans.

There are two drawings by R Gilyard-Beer from excavations between 1957 and 1964, published in the 1969 proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History. There are also forty-eight drawings from the Department of the Environment excavations of 1976 and 1980 and eight oversized drawings of the 1980 excavations produced in 1984.

Three sheets contain drawings and paintings by the Suffolk artist C H Lay and from 1970 there are four drawings of decoration from a tomb made by G Coppack.

In 1970 the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works produced five drawings for a guidebook to the Abbey. Between 1970 and 1971 they, and subsequently the Department of the Environment, also produced several drawings of the Samson Tower and the houses built over the west front of the Abbey.

From between 1970 and 1972 are nine oversized drawings by the Department of the Environment of the buildings over the west end of the abbey church. In 1974 they also made a four drawing survey of the church. From 1989, there is a three drawing survey of the Abbot's lodging made by Survey International for English Heritage.

There are several surveys of the Norman gate tower made by the Department of the Environment between 1973 and 1978 and English Heritage in around 1990.

In 1981 the Department for the Environment commissioned the Institute for Advanced Architectural Studies (IAAS), York to produce four horizontal profiles of the great abbey gate. Between 1981 and 1983 IAAS made a full photogrammetric survey of the great abbey gate, consisting of a further fourteen drawings.

There are eight photogrammetric elevations of the two gate towers from 1989 by English Heritage.

Content

This is part of the Series: EHC01/022 English Heritage Plans and Measured Drawings; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(EH):Archive

Rights

© Bury St Edmunds Borough Council

© Crown Copyright. Historic England Archive

© Crown copyright. Ordnance Survey

© Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England

© Historic England Archive

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