The Abbey Gate

The Abbey Gate is a Grade I listed, 14th-century gatehouse located on Romeland. It is a three-storey structure built of flint with freestone dressings, which was restored in the 17th century when it received its high-pitched, tiled roof. The walls feature Roman bricks set at random. The central archway, which is two storeys high, is divided by a pier on the north side and flanked by half-octagonal turrets on the south side. The gatehouse has a battlemented parapet with brick coping on the outer sections and renewed stone coping in the centre. There are five irregularly placed one- and two-light leaded casement windows with hoodmoulds, many of which have been renewed. The north face has undergone significant repair work in brick. Inside, the archway features a lierne vault with an octagon at its centre. There is also a west extension from 1892 made of red brick and flint with a tiled pent roof. The Abbey Gate and St Alban's School buildings are part of a group.