Editing Ramsey Abbey (section)

==After the Dissolution==
In 1540 [[the Crown]] sold the abbey lands to Sir [[Richard Williams (alias Cromwell)]].<ref name=CE/> He used most of the abbey buildings as a source of stone for walls and cottages at hand, and to provide good [[Barnack stone]] for new buildings. He had part of the [[Ramsey Abbey Gatehouse|abbey gatehouse]] dismantled and re-erected at [[Hinchingbrooke House]]. Much stone was taken to Cambridge to build [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge|Gonville and Caius]], [[King's College, Cambridge|King's]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity]] colleges. Stone was taken for the tower for the parish church of St Mary the Virgin in [[Godmanchester]]. This included a doorway from the abbey that was dismantled and re-erected as the west doorway of St Mary's. As late as 1672 stone for a new tower for Ramsey's own [[Church of St Thomas à Becket, Ramsey|parish church of St Thomas à Becket]] was also taken from the Abbey.

[[File:Ramsey Abbey 1.jpg|thumb|Ramsey Abbey House, remodelled in 1804–06 by Sir [[John Soane]]]]
Around 1600 Sir [[Henry Williams (alias Cromwell)]] had a house built on the site of the abbey church. Six bays of the 13th-century Lady Chapel survive as the basement of the house.<ref name=NHLE-School>{{NHLE |num=1156544 |desc=Ramsey Abbey School |grade=I |access-date=27 June 2017}}</ref>

In 1737 [[Coulson Fellowes]], later MP for [[Huntingdonshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Huntingdonshire]], bought the house. It passed down through several generations of the family. In 1804–06 [[William Henry Fellowes]] had the abbey house enlarged to designs by Sir [[John Soane]]. In 1889 his son [[Edward Fellowes, 1st Baron de Ramsey|Edward Fellowes]] was created 1st [[Baron de Ramsey]]. In 1931 at the coming of age of [[John Ailwyn Fellowes, 4th Baron de Ramsey]] the family moved its seat to [[Abbots Ripton]] Hall. In 1937 the Fellowes leased the building for 99 years to Ramsey Abbey School. In 1952 Major The Hon. Henry Rogers Broughton gave the gatehouse to the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] in memory of his late wife The Hon. Diana Broughton ({{nee|Fellowes}}).<ref>{{cite web |title=Fellowes Family |url=https://ramseyabbey.co.uk/lords-de-ramsey/ |access-date=12 May 2013 |work=History of Ramsey abbey |publisher=Clive Beeke}}</ref>