sps1955's photos with the keyword: Bury St Edmunds

Built between 1120 and 1148 as a gate tower for the Abbey; later used as the belfry of the adjacent parish church (now the cathedral) and restored 1846/7. Listing: www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1375555 . Seen from Churchgate Street

The west front of the abbey was built between 1120 and 1211, but was robbed of its ashlar facing after the dissolution; houses were inserted into the remains from the late C17 and altered in the C18 and C19. Listing: www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1375539 .

S. front. Begun in 1773 to designs of Robert Adam; for further history, see set page . The left-hand Venetian window lights the eating room; the central door opens into an ante-room (and was at one stage covered by a conservatory whose ghost is still visible); the room behind the right-hand Venetian window also has good original plasterwork and what is said to be an original bookcase (see links to photos from c.1890 in comment below).

W. front. Begun in 1773 to designs of Robert Adam; for further history, see set page . This front originally had a view to the town, and the main rooms were concentrated on this side. On the ground floor an eating room extended the full width of the front (with the N and S ends screened by columns); this survives as the school chapel. The first floor room seems to have been the original drawing room, with apsed ends N and S in the original drawings, although these do not survive. According to the original plans, the E. front originally had a similar bow for symmetry but it was used to form closets, rather than being expressed internally.

N. front. Begun in 1773 to designs of Robert Adam; for further history, see set page . 19th-century wing on left; the Venetian window lights the staircase. Originally the stairs were behind the left-hand window in the main block, and the original drawings show the E. front with a two-storey bow to match the one on the West (just visible on the right of this shot). The porch and the windows flanking it must be 19th-century alterations. Much of the original exterior "trim" is wooden, including the pilasters (according to the listing description ); note the condition of the cornice above the central window on the first floor.

View from SSE. Begun in 1773 to designs of Robert Adam; for further history, see set page . 19th-century wing on the right; according to the original drawings, the E. front initially had a two-storey bow to match the one just visible on the W. front.