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Christchurch Mansion is a substantial Tudor brick mansion house built in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, by Edmund Withypoll (also written "Withipoll") around 1548–50. The Grade I listed building is located within Christchurch Park and sits by the southern gates close to the town centre of Ipswich.
Rear view of Christchurch Mansion.. There are 11 [1] Grade I listed buildings in Ipswich, a non-metropolitan district and the county town of Suffolk, England.. In the United Kingdom, the term listed building refers to a building or other structure officially designated as being of "exceptional architectural or historic special interest"; Grade I structures are those considered to be "buildings ...
The distinguished Tudor house, Christchurch Mansion, is located at the parks southern entrance and holds a public museum and art gallery. The park belonged to various noble families as private land throughout its history but was purchased by the Ipswich Borough Council in 1894 and opened as the town's first public park in 1895. [1]
Medallion of Edmund Withypoll (aged 48) by Steven van Herwijk. [1]Edmund Withypoll (1510/13 – 18 May 1582), Esquire, [2] of London, of Walthamstow, Essex, and of Ipswich, Suffolk, was an English merchant, money-lender, landowner, sheriff and politician, who established his family in his mother's native county of Suffolk, [3] and built Christchurch Mansion, a distinguished surviving Tudor ...
In 1895 the Tudor house in the park on the north side of Ipswich, Christchurch Mansion (built for Edmund Withypoll in 1548–1550), was given to the town by Felix Cobbold and eventually became the art and local history department of the Borough's Museums. Woolnough made himself a polymath and developed both departments of the museum and also ...
Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich c. 1890. From 1738 to 1740, he was a Director of the Bank of England. In 1735 he purchased Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich, Suffolk, from Price Devereux, 10th Viscount Hereford. [3]
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Christchurch Mansion and Park: Ipswich: Tudor mansion built in 1548–50 and situated in parkland. It houses a collection of pottery and glass, a contemporary art gallery and a collection of paintings by artists including John Constable and Thomas Gainsborough. Grade I listed building. Endeavour House: Ipswich