IpSwIch herITage open dayS SaTurday 10Th & Sunday 11Th SepTember 2016

The Society 1 St Stephen’s Church, St Stephen’s Lane

a 15th and 16th century church, now converted into the Tourist Information centre. The welcome To herITage exterior is a patchwork of open dayS 2016 flint, stone and brick. Inside, the windows The country’s biggest and create a pleasant, light most popular voluntary cultural event space. In the chancel is a splendid monument to a warm welcome to residents and visitors to what’s on robert and mary leman offer during the 2016 heritage open days weekend here who died on the same day in Ipswich co-ordinated by the Ipswich Society. we have in 1637 (robert leman more than 30 buildings open plus locations to visit along was one time Sheriff of with free guided walks around some of the town’s sites london). and buildings of interest. as well as favourites like willis, Saturday 9am-5pm there are also buildings open for the first time. This year Sunday 10am-2pm we also say ‘Farewell pigs’ from the pigs gone wild trail. on Saturday 10th September there will be the ever 2 popular free bus tour on a heritage bus provided by the Unitarian Meeting House, . a great opportunity for Friars Street stopping off at many of the places open to visit, bring the youngsters! Several open buildings will have built in 1699 and one of refreshments. alternatively, why not walk around the the architectural gems of Saints and blackfriars areas and sample some of the Ipswich. original box independent cafés. pews, a magnificent pulpit The Ipswich Society is grateful to all concerned for their carved in the style of participation. The buildings listed represent seven grinling gibbons, dutch centuries in the history of Ipswich and will be open to the 17th century candelabra public during the weekend, with additional opening days and a clock from an even for some venues. The heritage open days event provides earlier date. Fine entrance a chance to see inside historical buildings, many of which doors, one with a spyhole are not normally accessible to the general public. In this for use against visits from leaflet, descriptions of the buildings are necessarily brief opponents of non- but in most cases further information will be available at conformist worshippers. the site and/or guides will be on hand. Saturday 10am-5pm opening times are correct at time of going to press but if Sunday noon-4pm travelling any distance for a specific building you might like to check details in advance of your journey. Above: Willis Front cover: Holywells Park 3 4 5 Willis Arlington’s Brasserie, , Friars Street 13 Museum Street High Street

This iconic building is now A Grade II listed This fascinating and over 40 years old. Guided three-storey building with unique museum gives you tours of the building will an attractive façade, the opportunity to meet be given including the including Doric columns, a the famous woolly swimming pool, one of grand classical styled mammoth, the elegant the office floors and the staircase (1550 from towering giraffe and other roof garden. The Coffee Seckford's Great Place) wonderful curiosities from Bar will also be open. and vaulted entrance hall. the natural world. Norman Foster gets the Built in 1847 as a credit for the Willis museum, Darwin’s tutor Saturday 10am-5pm building, for it was his Henslow gave free ideas of hanging glass as lectures to the public 6 curtain walls and large here. Now a brasserie. Ipswich School, open plan offices that 25 Henley Road were revolutionary in the Seven days a week early 1970s. However 8am-10pm Built 1851/52 in architects (Sir) Michael Elizabethan style in red Hopkins and Ipswich born brick. The porch entrance Birkin Haward (junior) and the tower provide a also worked on the link with early education scheme. in the town - the former being a reproduction of Saturday and Sunday the gateway to Wolsey’s 10am-2pm College in St Peter’s Street, and the latter resembling Tom Tower at Christ Church, Oxford. The post-war buildings include a fine library with stained glass by John Piper. For tours - meet in Reception off Henley Road. Leave town centre via High Street or Fonnereau Road.

Saturday tours at 9, 10 and 11am

Above: Ipswich School Left: Unitarian Meeting House 9 St Margaret’s Church, Soane Street

a fine medieval church in town dating from 1300 with the tower added c.1400 and other parts in 1450. donations from wealthy benefactors over 7 8 the years have made St Ipswich Cemeteries , margaret’s fascinating, Cemetery Road Christchurch Park with numerous interesting artefacts. The c15 double Ipswich cemetery opened a 16th century mansion hammer beam roof, in 1855 and will be with rooms furnished decorated in 1695, is the offering historic tours from Tudor to Victorian crowning glory. bellringing taking in the history of periods."a peep into the demonstrations at 11am some of the headstones past" is a free short tour. & 3pm and families buried in come along and talk to Ipswich, as well as around our knowledgeable guides Saturday 9am-5pm the crematorium about the house and the facilities. Staff will be on collections. The Visitor 10 hand to answer questions Team will be in costume and give advice on family between 10am and 4pm Freemasons Hall, research. our stonemason interpreting some of the 8-10 Soane Street will be demonstrating his characters whose The masonic hall was skills and offering the portraits are on display. completed in 1870 and opportunity for you to try Tours 11am and 2pm updated in 1911 by stone masonry. Take the Please book a place by architect george henry opportunity to visit the calling 01473 433691 betram gould. In the Temple of remembrance. 1970s it was extended to Saturday and Sunday Saturday 11am-3pm incorporate number 8. 10am-5pm The main items of interest are the Temple, dining room and foyer. The Temple, in particular, contains many items of masonic interest. Saturday 10am-4pm Sunday 11am-3pm

Above: Christchurch Mansion Left: Temple of Remembrance 11 13 15 Bethesda Baptist Church, Admiral’s House, Ipswich Institute and 9 St Margaret’s Plain Tower Street Library, Tavern Street

a classical style building probably built in the reign Founded in 1824 by dr by the architect F g of charles II (1660-1685) george birbeck, The Faunch. opened in 1913, with a later georgian Ipswich mechanic’s it seats 800 and has a front. The interior is a mix Institution moved into the splendid gallery on three of architectural styles. former chemist shop at 15 sides providing the best once the home of admiral Tavern Street in 1834. This view of the interior. benjamin page, visited by hidden oasis of cultural wellington in 1820, it and architectural heritage Saturday 10am-3pm houses the Institute includes a popular members’ restaurant, independent library in a coffee lounge light airy barrel-vaulted (refreshments available) hall, dating from 1876. and lecture rooms. nb: This year take the opportunity to speak to a Saturday and Sunday record office staff 10am-4pm member about how to Left: Pykenham Gatehouse use Suffolk record office’s Below: Ipswich institute archives for your family 14 and local history on Saturday. There will be a Town Hall, Cornhill, display on the history of Princes Street 12 the Ipswich Institute. opened in 1868, this is a Pykenham Gatehouse, Saturday and Sunday Northgate Street good example of high Victorian civic 10am-4pm a rare opportunity to visit architecture with external one of the earliest features of classical domestic buildings in columns, statues and Ipswich. It has seen the sculpted heads. The grand comings and goings of staircase has oak some 20 generations of balustrade and cast iron Ipswich people - at first work. The mayor’s parlour through the north gate will be open. guided tours and along the street with by the Town Sergeant. the brook, and more recently past the imposing Saturday Tours of the library built opposite it Town Hall, Mayor's during the last century. Parlour and Corn Exchange at 10.30am, Saturday and Sunday 11.30am, 1pm and 2pm. 10am-4pm Meet in the foyer 16 18 20 Christchurch United Blackfriars, The Wheatsheaf, Reformed/Baptist Foundation Street 26 Fore Street Church, Tacket Street with its remains of local 16th century merchant’s designed in 1856 by local septaria stone walls, this house. Formerly the architect Frederick barnes was the site of the wheatsheaf public house, in the gothic revival style dominican Friars, an it is now occupied by a and built in Kentish extensive set of buildings recruitment agency. ragstone with caen stone that included the largest quoins. The interior has a church in Ipswich, with Saturday and Sunday large gallery, cast iron cloisters and refectory. 10am-4pm work and a stained glass established in 1263, parts east window. survived the dissolution but were finally Saturday 10am-5pm demolished in the mid nineteenth century. There 17 will be geologists on site St Clement’s Church, to show you the septaria. St Clement’s Church Lane Sunday 10am-4pm built mainly in the 14th and early 15th centuries, this Right: The Wheatsheaf handsome church was Below: Tooley’s Court known as the ‘sailors church’. The walls and the 19 21 elegant tower reveal the Tooley’s Court, attractions of dark knapped Foundation Street Spread Eagle, flintwork. The roof was Fore Street 'Let gentle Smart sleep on refurbished after a fire in in pious trust, Behold his welcome to the oldest 1996. now developing as Charity, respect his dust' pub in Ipswich that is still an arts centre. behold his charity indeed, operating, one of only two Saturday and Sunday for it is the Foundation of grain brewery pubs. This 9am-5pm these almshouses that distinctive grade II listed william Smart, together building was built in the with a legacy from henry sixteenth century but has Tooley and other Tudor been much altered during merchants left to the the intervening 450 years, town. Tooley died in 1550 repaired, restored and and the almshouses were adapted to suit the begun, aided by Smart’s trading needs of the day. bequest in 1598. open for refreshments. Saturday and Sunday Saturday and Sunday 10am-4pm 10am-closing time 22 25 Fore Street Pool, Isaac Lord (Machine Fore Street Room and the Brewery), Wherry Quay an elegant Victorian design with a fully glassed a series of grade I and roof. officially opened on two grade II listed in 1894 by the mayor of buildings, a late 15th - Ipswich Samuel anness. 16th century merchant’s The first year saw over house and warehouse, it 42,000 people use the 24 is now a waterside venue facility. The population of Sailing Barge Victor, and coffee tavern. The Ipswich was only 57,000 Common Quay maltings is a rare example at the time. In 2009 the of an 18th century hand pool underwent extensive built in 1895 in Ipswich, malting concern. The refurbishment. Fore this is one of the oldest machine room has been Street currently ranks working Thames Sailing restored and the brewery within the top 20 of barges. commissioned for is an excellent example of historic operational pools work in the linseed trade, local craftsmanship. in the country. Sb Victor worked in Isaac’s (coffee shop and pub): general cargo from the Open all weekend. For tours, Sunday 11am-4pm 1930s. during the war she meet in Isaac’s car park. survived a bomb blast and since then has had a varied Saturday and Sunday 23 career including as a strip Tours 9am & 10am Holy Trinity Church club and a houseboat. Back Hamlet/Fore Hamlet restored to her traditional 19th century rig. access to 26 a rare georgian church Victor may be subject to Old Custom House, (one of Ipswich’s best kept pre-booked sailings. Key Street secrets) with a surprising interior including a Saturday and Sunday built 1844/5 by architect remarkable stained glass 10am-5pm John medland clark using window commemorating a polychromic technique the fallen of the parish in of red brick with white world war I. The nearest brick quoins. The ground active church to the floor included a bonded university & waterfront. warehouse which has been converted into the Saturday 9am-5pm waterfront conference centre. Staffed by Ipswich maritime Trust. ground floor open only. Above: Sailing Barge Victor, Right: Fore Street Pool Saturday and Sunday 10am-4pm 27 St Mary-at-Stoke Church, Stoke Street

parts of this lovely medieval Ipswich church date from the 14th century, which, until the railway arrived in the parish in 1846, served the small hamlet of Stoke, with its single aisle box pews offering 100 seats. with the great increase in parish population a large extension was designed by 28 29 william butterfield, an Quay Place, St Peter’s Church, internationally acclaimed St-Mary-at-the-Quay College Street architect of the Victorian era. he designed hundreds open again this year and with historical displays of notable buildings, St nearing completion, there about the church from mary’s was the only will be a merchant the 12th century to the church in Ipswich to adventurers heritage present day and home to receive his midas touch. dressing up box and photo the Ipswich charter In april 2004, the church booth, also a knot and hangings, depicting was re-classified as a rope interactive display Ipswich through the ages. grade 1 listed building. telling the story of rope St peter’s also houses a one of just two such walks in Ipswich and the rare Tournai marble font, churches in Ipswich. This evolving knots used in a magnificent east places St mary’s in this building, agriculture and window and many very special category maritime life. a play table architectural features. alongside christchurch to encourage storytelling Information about the mansion, wolsey’s about the wharfs, quays building, parish and town gateway and The ancient and business along the will be on display with house. guides on hand at waterfront. additional information most times. Visitor and provided by the over Saturday and Sunday Stoke history group. we historic guide booklets 9am-5pm available. will also be a point of call for the annual Suffolk Saturday 9am-4pm historic churches Trust Sunday noon-4pm bike ride on Saturday. Thursday - Friday Above: St Mary-at-Stoke 10am-3:30pm Church Saturday 9am-5pm Right: Quay Place 30 31 32 Gippeswyk Hall, Broomhill Library, Broomhill Swimming (Red Rose Chain) Sherrington Road Pool, Sherrington Road The Avenue Theatre awarded a grade II listing one of 14 grade II listed The heritage lottery Fund in november 2012. The lidos left in england. The supported the red rose unique group value of the lido operated for 64 years chain in their quest for a ‘broomhill twins’ further before closure in 2002. new venue behind the strengthens the 70 year The pool has the last grade II* listed Tudor bond between the library wicksteed diving stage in gippeswyk hall. Inspired (built 1942) and the country. Fusion by the sort of barn broomhill pool (built lifestyle’s heritage lottery structure which might 1938). both designed by Fund bid was successful, have once stood there, county- borough of securing a stage 1 creating a new purpose as Ipswich engineer, e. development grant of a leading inclusive arts mclauchlan. built as a £180,000. The project and heritage venue. Tour ww2 bomb-proof plan includes a fitness of the buildings and a decontamination unit and suite, terrace café and cream tea. public shelter, it was heritage rooms, and Thursday to Sunday converted for a more indicates a mid-2018 10am-4pm peaceful purpose in 1948, reopening. and has served as public library ever since. located Saturday and Sunday in beautiful broomhill 10am-4pm park purchased by the county-borough in 1925. 33 Saturday and Sunday Freston Tower, Freston Hill 10am-4pm an elizabethan six-storey Left: Gyppeswyk Hall tower built in 1578 by Below: Broomhill Swimming Ipswich merchant Thomas Pool gooding and overlooking the river orwell. restored by the landmark Trust and available as holiday accommodation. Leave town centre via Vernon Street/Wherstead Road to Bourne Bridge, turn left onto The Strand (B1456) to Landmark Trust sign opposite layby.

Friday-Monday 10am-4pm Tuesday 10am-1pm 34 Royal Hospital School, Holbrook created by royal charter in 1694, the royal hospital School moved from Queen’s house, greenwich (now the national maritime museum) in 1933 to a newly built campus in holbrook. with views of the river Stour and set in 200 acres, it is now a successful day and 35 36 boarding school for 11-18 Holywells Park Tour Martlesham Heath year olds. The tour will Stable Block Control Tower include the dining hall, the chapel (with one of explore the heritage, The control Tower the largest organs in myths and landscape from museum tells the history western europe) and a medieval times to present of one of the country’s mosaic created by Italian day with a history walk most important airfields artisans. Finally, the starting by the stable between 1917 and 1969. heritage centre, built to block. Includes flights of our open day this year is celebrate the school’s steps and rough terrain so Sunday 11th September tercentenary in 2012. is unsuitable for and there will be lots of Leave town centre via Vernon wheelchairs. refreshments extra attractions and Street/Wherstead Road to are available at the cafe. special displays together Bourne Bridge and turn left Parking at Orwell Quay with a Spitfire giving a onto The Strand (B1456). (Anchor St) or Duke St. Use flying display. Fork right onto the B1080 to the park's Myrtle Rd entrance. The museum is located at the Holbrook, through the village Or catch the Ipswich rear of Parkers Place, off Transport Museum bus. to the school. Eagle Way, Martlesham Saturday 1.45pm Heath IP5 3UX to the east of Saturday Ipswich and is on bus route (Tour approximately one Tours at 9am, 10am & 66 operated by First Buses. 11am hour) www.mhas.org.uk

Sunday 11am-4pm

Above: Holywells Park Left: Royal Hospital School TA TA TROTTERS FAREWELL, PIGS! Suffolk’s biggest ever mass participation art event, pigs gone wild, has come to an end. The interactive trail took over Ipswich for 10-weeks, where the town centre and waterfront saw larger-than-life, spectacularly decorated pig sculptures on every corner.

The ‘Ta Ta Trotters’ exhibition will be a chance for everyone to admire the pigs once more and say goodbye, before they go to auction to raise funds for St elizabeth hospice.

The exhibition will be held in the Grand Hall of the Corn Exchange on the Heritage Open Days. Saturday 10 September 10am to 5pm Sunday 11 September 10am to 4pm walKS and TourS enhance your enjoyment of the heritage open days weekend and take advantage of the free walks and tours provided by Ipswich Tourist guides, Ipswich building preservation Trust and Ipswich Transport museum.

FREE GUIDED WALKS WITH IPSWICH TOURIST GUIDES Saturday and Sunday 10.30am a 90-minute walking tour of Ipswich’s architectural and historical heritage. add an extra dimension to the heritage open days weekend by joining one of the free town walks, led by Ipswich Tourist guides. The walks leave from the Tourist Information centre at St Stephen’s church at 10.30am on Saturday and Sunday. The routes will pass many of the buildings listed. Booking advisable but not essential.

IPSWICH BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST Creating a future for the past a tour of historic buildings at risk, past and present to explain the work of the organisation. The walk this year will look at a variety of properties preserved by the Trust since 1978 including a former pub comprising two dilapidated cottages converted to single FOR INFORMATION residence, and an early exemplar project in a AND BOOKING: tucked away corner of the town Saturday 10.30am and 2.30pm Ipswich Tourist Walk commences at Pykenham's Gatehouse Information Centre, opposite Northgate Street library. St Stephen’s Church, The walk lasts approximately 90 minutes. St Stephen’s Lane, Ipswich IP1 1DP Advance booking essential as places are limited.

Contact Ipswich Tourist Information Centre Telephone: 01473 258070 Telephone: 01473 258070 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Any remaining places can be reserved at the Gatehouse on the morning of Saturday 10th www.allaboutipswich.com September. IpSwIch TranSporT muSeum buS TrIpS SaTurday only

1 old custom house (waterfront) 10.30 11.30 12.30 13.30 14.30 15.30 2 Ipswich Station (Station building) 10.35 11.35 12.35 13.35 14.35 15.35 3 princes Street (Fire Station) 10.37 11.37 12.37 13.37 14.37 15.37 4 norwich road (cumberland Towers) 10.45 11.45 12.45 13.45 14.45 15.45 5 Sherrington road (broomhill) 10.50 11.50 12.50 13.50 14.50 15.50 6 henley road (Ipswich School) 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 7 high Street (Ipswich museum) 11.02 12.02 13.02 14.02 15.02 16.02 8 Tower ramparts (bus Station) 11.04 12.04 13.04 14.04 15.04 16.04 9 Soane Street (christchurch mansion) 11.05 12.05 13.05 14.05 15.05 16.05 10 museum Street (arlingtons) 11.08 12.08 13.08 14.08 15.08 16.08 11 Friars Street (willis) 11.09 12.09 13.09 14.09 15.09 16.09 12 buttermarket (bus Station) 11.10 12.10 13.10 14.10 15.10 16.10 13 cliff lane (holywells park) 11.20 12.20 13.20 14.20 15.20 16.20 14 old custom house (waterfront) 11.25 12.25 13.25 14.25 15.25 16.25

Take a free trip back in time by travelling between destinations on an Ipswich Transport museum veteran bus accompanied by a tour guide.

The heritage bus will depart from the old custom house (waterfront) at 30 minutes past the hour.

Timings approximate - Saturday service only. every effort will be made to maintain the timetable below but please remember that we are using buses over 40 years old. noTe: The service will be provided by a heritage vehicle from the Ipswich Transport museum. It may not be possible to accommodate mobility impaired passengers. wheelchairs, buggies etc. must be folded and stowed in the luggage compartment. please signal the bus clearly at any recognised bus stop en route.

For further information on Ipswich Transport Museum visit www.ipswichtransportmuseum.co.uk The IpSwIch SocIeTy The Ipswich Society was founded in 1960 and campaigns to preserve the best of the town’s old buildings and to ensure new building is of similar quality.

Society members enjoy a series of winter lectures on subjects about, or affecting Ipswich and its environs and a programme of Summer outings. members also receive a quarterly newsletter.

The Society monitors planning applications and comments on those which will have a noticeable impact on the town. members attend Ipswich borough council’s conservation and design panel. comments are made on regional, county and local planning documents, including the development plan. It also contributes to debates on local transport strategy and the balance between public transport and the alternatives.

The Society is for individuals, families and corporate organisations who care about the appearance, character and well being of Ipswich. If you would like to join please use the form below. www.ipswichsociety.org.uk facebook/ipswichsociety The Ipswich Society

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*pleaSe deleTe aS approprIaTe cheques are payable to The Ipswich Society and should be sent, together with the form, to The membership Secretary, The Ipswich Society, 32 cowper Street, Ipswich Ip4 5Jb 6 7 Buildings list 31 32

1 St Stephen’s Church 2 Unitarian Meeting House 8 3 Willis 5 4 Arlington’s Brasserie 5 Ipswich Museum 9 6 Ipswich School 11 7 Ipswich Cemeteries 10 36 8 Christchurch Mansion 12 9 St Margaret’s Church 13 10 Freemasons Hall 11 Bethesda Baptist Church 4 15 12 Pykenham Gatehouse 14 13 Admiral’s House 14 Town Hall 1 15 Ipswich Institute and Library 16 Christchurch United Reformed/Baptist Church 21 17 St Clements Church 2 16 3 18 Blackfriars 18 19 Tooley’s Court 20 20 The Wheatsheaf 19 22 17 21 Spread Eagle 22 Fore Street Pool 23 Holy Trinity Church 29 28 26 24 Sailing Barge Victor 25 23 25 Isaac Lord 26 Old Custom House 24 35 27 St Mary-at-Stoke Church 28 Quay Place 29 St Peter’s Church 30 Gippeswyk Hall 27 31 Broomhill Library 32 Broomhill Swimming Pool 30 33 Freston Tower 34 Royal Hospital School 35 Holywells Park 36 Martlesham Control Tower 33 34