The Abbey Gatehouse

The Abbey Gatehouse, dating from the 13th century, is one of the last remaining parts of Minster Abbey, alongside the Abbey Church. This gatehouse stands three storeys tall and features two windows on the south side and one on the east side. It is constructed from stone and flints, with stringcourses and a castellated parapet decorated with a chequer pattern of stone and knapped flints. The south front has modern casement windows, with those on the second floor set in medieval openings that have 4-centred heads. On the east front, there is one cinquefoil-headed lancet window on the second floor. The south-west corner includes a pointed carriage archway, with a pointed pedestrian arch located to the east of it. The north front displays three cinquefoil-headed lancet windows, and a chimney is corbelled out between two of these on the second floor. Additionally, there is a pointed carriage archway on this side that is as wide as the combined widths of both the carriage and pedestrian archways on the south front. A square projection in the north-east corner features pointed lancet windows.