MOYSES HALL

41, CORNHILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1076931
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: MOYSES HALL
Statutory Address:: 41, CORNHILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1076931
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: MOYSES HALL
Statutory Address 1:: 41, CORNHILL
Statutory Address 2:: MOYSES HALL, CORNHILL

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:: 41, CORNHILL
Statutory Address:: MOYSES HALL, CORNHILL

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Bury St. Edmunds
National Grid Reference:: TL 85301 64370

Details

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW CORNHILL 639-1/7/295 (North side) 07/08/52 Moyses Hall

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Includes: No.41 CORNHILL. Merchant house, later used for a variety of purposes, including an inn, a Bridewell, a prison and a police station; now a museum. Late C12, considerably restored and altered in 1858. In flint and stone with 2 steep gables to the plaintiled roofs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic to part, cellar to part. A wide freestone buttress at each end of the main front and a similar central buttress between the 2 gabled halves of the building. A moulded stone string course runs across the whole front at 1st storey level. The right half of the building has 2 linked original Norman windows beneath roll-moulded arches resting on colonnettes with crocket capitals. The windows are 2-light, rectangular in form with roll-moulded surrounds. The left half has a C15 traceried 2-light window in a rectangular surround on the 1st storey: the dividing mullion has a capital bearing a carving of a wolf guarding St Edmund's head. On the 2nd storey, 2 early C19 2-light pointed-headed windows with square leaded panes and stone surrounds. On the ground storey, four C19 2-light windows with diamond leaded panes have stone reveals and moulded segmental-headed surrounds. The entrance door on the right between 2 windows has a similar moulded segmental-headed surround. The east wall, in a mixture of flint and stone blocks, is mainly a C19 reconstruction. On the ground storey it has a semicircular headed 2-light window and a doorway with a triangular pediment and an architrave with wood keystone. A further 2-storey section to the north has flint walling alternating with red brick bands and cross windows with rectangular surrounds and moulded brick hood-moulds. A skeleton clock dial in the apex of the south gable. Clock with birdcage frame made by John Moore & Sons, Clerkenwell, London, dated 1876, installed by Vale & Richardson, 14 Abbeygate Street, Bury St Edmunds. Timber closed belfry containing clock chime of 3 bells, the 2 quarter bells of 1876 cast by John Taylor & Co. of Loughborough and the hour bell dated 1806, by the Whitechapel bell foundry. INTERIOR: stone groin-vaulted ground storey, the western part in 3 bays and the wider eastern part in 6 bays, supported on

massive circular piers with simple square capitals. A C16 brick arch with a shallow pointed head now links the 2 halves of the building. The rear range on the north east was an open arcaded storage area known as The Passage. Along the west wall are wide C16 brick arches. The hall and solar are on the 1st storey, approached by a C19 stone newel stair in an added lean-to in white brick with a slate roof. This stair has a 2-light diamond-leaded casement window in Gothic style on the 1st storey; beside it on the rear wall are 2 small blocked barred windows inserted when the building was used as a prison. The 2 C12 windows to the hall have nook-shafts with a roll moulding which is continued over the arch. A C16 fireplace in the dividing wall with the solar has a timber lintel and stone jambs, both with a smaller version of the roll-moulding round the window arches. The jamb on one side has been moved inwards. Beside it, a pointed headed stone doorway. In the solar, the early C16 stone fireplace surround has a double ogee-moulding to the shallow arch. To the left of this fireplace is an altered Norman doorway probably originally for an internal stair, with a reset C14 head. The rear range, which seems to have originally extended further north, is in 2-and-a-half bays and has a high timber-framed rear wall with 2 middle rails. The C16 roof has clasped purlins with a hollow chamfer moulding and short cranked windbraces. Arched braces to the collars corbelled out from the walls. No original tie-beams, but 3 later re-used ties have been inserted. Scheduled Ancient Monument. (BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 152).

Listing NGR: TL8530164370

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Legacy System number:: 466766
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974), 152

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