Gatehouse to Ramsey Abbey
GATEHOUSE TO RAMSEY ABBEY, ABBEY GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1130258
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse to Ramsey Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE TO RAMSEY ABBEY, ABBEY GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1130258
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse to Ramsey Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEHOUSE TO RAMSEY ABBEY, ABBEY GREEN
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:
- GATEHOUSE TO RAMSEY ABBEY, ABBEY GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ramsey
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 29025 85069
Details
TL 2885-2985 RAMSEY ABBEY GREEN 12/22 (south side)
1.5.51 Gatehouse to Ramsey Abbey GV I
Late C15. Parts of east wall, north and south turrets and adjoining lodge of Abbey Gatehouse. Rubblestone with Barnack ashlar. Two storeys. Moulded plinth. North turret octagonal with embattled cornice between storeys. Each face of ground floor has 2 panels with cinquefoil and subcusped heads. Part only of similar panels survives at first floor. North wall with similar cornice continued at lower level. One 2-light window with moulded mullion and square head at ground floor. Richly decorated square oriel of 2 cinquefoil at first floor. Oriel carried on corbel decorated with band of quatrefoils and string of foliate bosses. On either side of window head is a band of subcusped quatrefoils, carved foliate bosses and embattled cornice. The buttress to the east has moulded off-sets and a panel on the face with cinquefoil head. South elevation similar to north, except that only part of ground floor of south turret survives, and south window has been cut down to form a doorway. Door with carved and moulded head. West side of east wall has sealed doorway in 4-centred head and part of jambs of north arch and a shaft in the adjoining angle. Early C19 gateway in north wall to the east. Barnack ashlar. Two centred arch with gabled bell turret above. By Sir John Soane. Modern stone extension in angle of north wall and lodge.
Interior: two centred arches to doorways to stair turrets. Late C13 effigy of Ailwyn, founder of Ramsey Abbey. Alabaster. Reset from Ramsey Abbey. Fragments of bosses in modern extension. Part of gatehouse incorporated in gatehouse to Hinchingbrooke Castle, Huntingdon.
R.C.H.M. Hunts p208 V.C.H. Hunts (ii) Peysner Buildings of England (Beds, Hunts and Peterborough) (p264) Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln Inn Fields. Drawer 46, Sets 5 (4-7).
Listing NGR: TL2902585069
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54425
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 208
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 264
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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