Ipswich Minster

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Ipswich Minster
Saint Mary-le-Tower church
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Ipswich Minster
Location in Suffolk
52°03′30″N1°09′19″E / 52.0584°N 1.1554°E / 52.0584; 1.1554
Location Ipswich, Suffolk
CountryEngland
Denomination Church of England
Churchmanship Central
Website https://www.ipswichminster.org
History
Dedication Saint Mary
Architecture
Heritage designationGrade II*
Designated19 December 1951
Specifications
Spire height176 feet (54 m)
Administration
Diocese Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich

Ipswich Minster, previously known as St Mary-le-Tower, is the civic church of Ipswich, Suffolk, England and a Grade II* listed building. [1] [2] It was in the churchyard of St Mary that the town charter of Ipswich was written in 1200. [3]

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History

Although medieval, the church mostly dates from 1860 to 1870, when it was rebuilt by Richard Phipson. [4] Rebuilding was funded by George Bacon, banker and philanthropist. The church, then known as St Mary Le Tower, is mentioned in the Domesday Book, demonstrating that the site has been occupied by a church since at least 1086. [5]

Redesignation as a Minster

On the 19th of January 2025, the church known as St Mary-le-Tower, was redesignated as Ipswich Minster in recognition of its increasingly important role in serving the community of Ipswich. [6] [7]

Memorials

The church contains a brass memorial on a chancel pier to H.A. Douglas-Hamilton, vicar from 1915 to 1925. There are also four brasses in the chancel floor.

Organ

The church has a large three-manual pipe organ, which has its origins in an instrument by Renatus Harris of 1690. [8] There was subsequent work by Henry Willis, Spurden Rutt and Bishop and Son. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register. [9]

Bells

Originally there were five bells and a Sanctus in 1553 of which Miles Graye I of Colchester recast the Treble in 1607 and the Tenor in 1610. The church was the first in Suffolk to achieve a tower a peal of 12 bells in 1865. With the addition of a sharp second in 1980, the current bells are all by John Taylor of Loughborough (except for No. 7, which is by Mears & Stainbank of London).

Incumbents

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References

  1. ↑ official website
  2. ↑ Historic England. "Church of St Mary le Tower (1235800)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  3. ↑ St Mary Le Tower, Suffolk Churches website
  4. ↑ The Buildings of England; Suffolk. Nikolaus Pevsner. Yale University Press. ISBN   9780300096484
  5. ↑ "St. Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich | 267586". Emporis. Archived from the original on 28 January 2015. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  6. ↑ Ipswich, Diocese of St Edmundsbury and. "A prominent Ipswich church will be redesignated by the Bishop as a Minster - Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich". www.cofesuffolk.org. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
  7. ↑ "Ipswich church is redesignated as a Minster". BBC News. 20 January 2025. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  8. ↑ The Organ, its History and Construction. Hopkins & Rimbault. 1st Ed: 1855
  9. ↑ "The National Pipe Organ Register - NPOR".
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