IXWORTH ABBEY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1031475
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: IXWORTH ABBEY
Statutory Address:: IXWORTH ABBEY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1031475
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: IXWORTH ABBEY
Statutory Address 1:: IXWORTH ABBEY

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: IXWORTH ABBEY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Ixworth
National Grid Reference:: TL 92982 70435

Details

TL 9270-9370 IXWORTH

3/3 Ixworth Abbey (formerly listed as Abbey, with Monastic remains in grounds) 14.7.55 I

A Priory of Augustinian Canons, partly demolished after the Dissolution: the remainder converted to domestic use. Founded by Gilbert de Blund in 1170. Part 1 1/2 storeys, part 2, part 2 storeys and attics: complex, irregular form. Various materials: freestone, flint, red and white brick, timber-framing, plaster. Plaintiled roofs. The principal (north) front, faced in mid-to-late C18 brick, is in 2 sections. The eastern half, 11/2 storeys, has a plain parapet, rising to a rounded arch over the entry. Range of 4 early C19 small- paned sash windows, set into earlier openings with segmental arched heads: one has heraldic glass of the Cartwright and Norton families, put in c.1890. High 8-panel door with raised fielded panels: doorcase with fluted Tuscan pilasters and metope frieze. Along rear wall, 2 long late C17 sash windows with thick, ovolo-moulded glazing bars. This range of the building was added in the late C17, and the interior contains some fine original fittings: 3-sided open newel stair with twisted balusters, entrance archway to undercroft with heavily rusticated and ornamented architrave, and a panelled upper room with coved ceiling, and fireplace flanked by pilasters with composite capitals, the western half of the front stands forward, making the whole facade L-shaped. 2 storeys, Roof with 2 hipped gables to north. 5 windows: small-paned sashes in deep reveals, both windows and openings with segmental arched heads, 3 openings blocked, with painted windows. Central 6-panelled door: raised fielded panels, rectangular traceried fanlight, and doorcase with fluted pilasters and flat pediment supported on carved console brackets. Return front on east is plastered, with wooden dentil cornice: 3 plain stone-faced buttresses to ground storey. 3 3-light Regency Gothic windows with heraldic glazing of 1841, 4 small-paned sash windows in flush frames to upper storey. This part of the house contains the truncated remains of the south range of the Priory and the whole of the east (dorter) range, apart from the Chapter House. Early C13 undercroft in 3 double bays: 2 octagonal piers suporting roof of groined vaulting. Slype at north end, aligned east-west: 3 bays of more finely- finished vaulting. Separate room at south end: 2 double bays with supporting central pier and fireplace on north wall. The room above has late C17 sash windows and is lined with re-used Jacobean panelling. In the upper part of the original west wall (now within the building) one early C13 lancet window with deep splay lined with original plaster: simulated stone jointing in red ochre. No trace of the west range remains. The late Cl5 red brick Abbot's lodging, in the south-east angle between the dorter range and the late C17 wing, possibly modernised in later C16, has a good moulded ceiling to ground floor hall. Attached at the south-east angle, an outbuilding in brick and flint with plaintiled roof forms one side of a 3-sided rear courtyard: roof surmounted by a timber cupola with clock and bell: octagonal turret with 8 supporting columns, conical roof with finial.

Listing NGR: TL9298270435

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Legacy System number:: 283579
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.