Abbots Bridge and Adjoining East Precinct Wall
ABBOTS BRIDGE AND ADJOINING EAST PRECINCT WALL, ABBEY PRECINCTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1375552
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Abbots Bridge and Adjoining East Precinct Wall
- Statutory Address:
- ABBOTS BRIDGE AND ADJOINING EAST PRECINCT WALL, ABBEY PRECINCTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1375552
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Abbots Bridge and Adjoining East Precinct Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBOTS BRIDGE AND ADJOINING EAST PRECINCT WALL, ABBEY PRECINCTS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ABBOTS BRIDGE AND ADJOINING EAST PRECINCT WALL, ABBEY PRECINCTS
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 85788 64356
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SE ABBEY PRECINCTS 639-1/8/97 Abbot's Bridge and adjoining east 07/08/52 Precinct wall
GV I
Monastic bridge across the River Lark at the north-west corner of the Abbey Precincts. Late C12 with C14 additions. In rubble flint and stone with freestone to buttresses and arches. A central pointed arch and flanking segmental arches on the north-east face carry the precinct wall, with 2 C14 breakwaters and 2 flying buttresses added between the arches. On the south-west face 3 segmental arches, each said to have formerly carried a portcullis, support a walkway which links the bridge with the C12 precinct wall leading to the vineyards on the east side of the river. In coursed and rubble flint, in parts more than 2 metres high, this wall extends some 98 metres to join the remains of the north wall of the vineyards. A short stretch of ashlar-faced return wall ends with a buttress on the river bank. Scheduled Ancient Monument. (BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 140).
Listing NGR: TL8578864356
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466453
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974), 140
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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