Art Deco in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, Modern Architecture at 20:00 on 7 November 2016
Bury St Edmunds has a smattering of old buildings in the Gothic style but also some Art Deco. This is a very thirties Marks & Spencer:-
Betfred has Art Deco leanings in the slight overhangs:-
But the exemplar has to be The Works, which exhibits the rule of three in the windows which in addition have great deco glass, with sunburst effect above:-
Detailing:-
End window detail:-
The Works was right beside this Tudor/mediæval style building which now houses W H Smith’s:-
Tags: Art Deco, Betfred, Bury St Edmunds, Marks & Spencer, Suffolk, The Works, W H Smith
Denis Cullinan
8 November 2016 at 03:34
Windows of The Works building are extra terrific. Keep up the good work.
Well, my son-in-law’s Glaswegian mother just flew back to Bearsden after visiting us (including her new granddaughter) for a coupla weeks. I realize now, however, that I won’t be doing any foreign travel to visit the in-laws (Scotland) or my cousins and their families (the Midlands). The reason is my crummy health and reduced sprightliness (I’ll be 74 in about a week).
I keep promising myself to photograph the cluster of a dozen or so Art Deco homes a mile away. Two big hospital buildings are fine examples of the thirties style. The Triboro hospital, which stands about two hundred yards from my apartment house (see link) is a great specimen of the streamline style:
http://collections.mcny.org/Collection/%5BParsons-Boulevard.-Triboro-Hospital-for-Tuberculosis,-3/4-view-from-N.W.%5D-24UAKVPKJCB.html
I already sent you this link a long time ago, but I’m running out of material for my comedy act.
Denis Cullinan
8 November 2016 at 03:47
I think I forgot to click on the “submit comment” button after writing you a note. What I’ll do, I’ll paste a copy of the note right here—
Windows of The Works building are extra terrific. Keep up the good work.
Well, my son-in-law’s Glaswegian mother just flew back to Bearsden after visiting us (including her new granddaughter) for a coupla weeks. I realize now, however, that I won’t be doing any foreign travel to visit the in-laws (Scotland) or my cousins and their families (the Midlands). The reason is my crummy health and reduced sprightliness (I’ll be 74 in about a week).
I keep promising myself to photograph the cluster of a dozen or so Art Deco homes a mile away. Two big hospital buildings are fine examples of the thirties style. The Triboro hospital, which stands about two hundred yards from my apartment house (see link) is a great specimen of the streamline style:
http://collections.mcny.org/Collection/%5BParsons-Boulevard.-Triboro-Hospital-for-Tuberculosis,-3/4-view-from-N.W.%5D-24UAKVPKJCB.html
I already sent you this link a long time ago, but I’m running out of material for my comedy act.
jackdeighton
8 November 2016 at 12:40
Denis,
Many thanks for your kind words.
The note seems to have been submitted okay.
Thanks also for the link. That hospital is a stunner.