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The Norman Tower, also known as St James' Gate, [1] is the detached bell tower of St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.Originally constructed in the early 12th century, as the gatehouse of the vast Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, it is one of only two surviving structures of the Abbey, the other being Abbey Gate, located 150 metres to the north.
The Norman Gate dates from 1120 to 1148 and was designed to be the gateway for the Abbey Church and it is still the belfry for the Church of St James, the present cathedral of Bury St Edmunds. This four-storey gate-hall is virtually unchanged and is entered through a single archway.
The interior of Suffolk's Anglican cathedral, St James in Bury St Edmunds. There are many Grade I listed buildings in St Edmundsbury, a former non-metropolitan district and borough in the county of Suffolk in England that takes its name from the town of Bury St Edmunds.
Bury St Edmunds has been in the unified county of Suffolk since April 1974. [99] Previously the town had been part of the county of West Suffolk of which Bury St Edmunds was the county town. The county of West Suffolk had been established in 1889. [102] Since 2009, Suffolk County Council has its Bury St Edmunds offices at West Suffolk House. [103]
Bury St Edmunds is a town in Suffolk, England. The main article for this category is Bury St Edmunds . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bury St Edmunds .
There are 402 scheduled monuments in the county of Suffolk, England. [1] These protected sites date in some cases from the Neolithic period, and include stone circles, ruined abbeys, castles, an Anglo-Saxon ship burial windmills. [2]
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