Part 31

TRINITY CHURCH is a Chapel of Ease, or District Church, erected in 1835, at a cost of £2,000, by the late Rev. J. T. Nottidge, then patron and incumbent. The present incumbent is the Rev. F. H. Maude.

ST. HELEN’S CHURCH, on the East side of the town, is of very ancient foundation, but was rebuilt in 1835, and neat brick transepts added in 1837; and a few years ago the nave was rebuilt and fitted with new open benches. It was anciently appropriated to the Leprous hospital of St. James, or Mary Magdalen, which stood near it; but it is now a rectory, which ever since the Reformation, has been consolidated with that of St. Clement’s, and is valued in K.B. at £8 13s. 9d.

ST. LAWRENCE’S CHURCH is a plain but ancient fabric, which is mentioned in Domesday Book, but is said to have been rebuilt in 1431 by John Bottold, who was buried in it, as also was Edmund Daundy, one of the benefactors of the town, who died in 1515. Upon the wall, behind the western gallery, is a painting of Christ disputing with the doctors, executed by Sir R. K. Porter, a military officer, during his sojourn at the barracks here. The benefice was appropriated to Trinity Priory, and is now a perpetual curacy, valued at £175. The parishioners are patrons; the Rev. J. C. Aldrich, incumbent.

ST. MARGARET’S CHURCH, on the green to which it gives name, is a large and ancient structure of mixed architecture, consisting of a chancel, nave, aisles, and transepts, with a fine tower and south porch. It has a curious antique font, and a singularly painted ceiling, with several grotesque carvings standing out from the walls. The benefice is a perpetual curacy, valued at £115, in the patronage of Simeon’s Trustees, and incumbency of the Rev. J. Owen, M.A.

ST. MARY-AT-ELMS is an ancient church, with a brick tower, supposed to stand near or upon the site of St. Saviour’s, as already noticed. In front of it is a row of fine elms, and near it are Smyth’s almshouses, and several old dwellings, bearing marks of former grandeur. This church was appropriated to Trinity Priory, and is now a perpetual curacy, valued at £80, in the gift of the parishioners, and incumbency of the Rev. W. Aldrich, A.B.

ST. MARY-AT-THE-QUAY is a plain structure, with a tower curiously built of flint, and containing six bells. It is commonly called Key Church, and must have been rebuilt after 1448, when Richard Gowty ordered his body to be buried in the churchyard, and gave Calyon stone “for the whole new church, which was to be erected.” The church spoliator, Dowsing, paid a visit to this edifice in 1643, and tore down nine superstitious pictures, and destroyed many inscriptions. The roof is supported by light clustered columns; and in a small transept is the tomb of Henry Tooley, the founder of the almshouses bearing his name. The living is a perpetual curacy, valued at £103, in the gift of the parishioners, and incumbency of the Rev. John Duningham, M.A.

ST. MARY-AT-STOKE, commonly called Stoke Church, is picturesquely seated on the south bank of the river Gipping, opposite the rest of the town, and consists of a nave, chancel, north aisle, a fine tower, and a brick porch. It is of ancient foundation, but has undergone so many repairs and renovations, that little of the original fabric remains. It was given by King Edgar, in 970, to the prior and convent of Ely; and their successors, the Dean and Chapter of Ely, are now patrons of the rectory, which is valued in K.B. at £12, and is now worth about £500 per annum; the tithes having been commuted for a yearly modus of £475. The Rev. Stephen Croft, M.A., is the present incumbent.

ST. MARY LE TOWER is the largest, and is considered the principal church in the town, though only a perpetual curacy, valued at £103, in the gift of the parishioners, and incumbency of the Rev. Wm. Nassau St. Leger, B.A., who is now military chaplain at Corfu. The present officiating curate is the Rev. L. Stanton.

ST. MATTHEW’S CHURCH, at the west end of the town, stands in a large burial ground, and is a plain, unassuming structure, consisting of a nave, chancel, side aisles, tower, and south porch. It was re-pewed about 1840, and was enlarged in 1843 by the extension of the south aisle. A further enlargement is in contemplation. The font is ancient, and has a finely carved cover, executed and presented by Mr. Hewett. At the east end of the south aisle is an elaborately painted glass window, inserted in December, 1853, in memory of the late wife of the present rector. It was executed by Geo. Hedgeland, Esq., from a design by Edward Howard, Esq., a brother of the deceased. The church has galleries and about 850 sittings. The Lord Chancellor is patron, the Rev. Charles Hicks Gaye, M.A., incumbent.

ST. NICHOLAS’ CHURCH, in the lower part of the town, near the river, is supposed to have been built upon the site and partly with the materials of St. Michael’s, which is mentioned in Domesday Book. It is built partly of flint, and has a cemented tower, containing four bells. It was repaired and newly fitted with open benches in 1848, at the cost of about £300. It was appropriated to St. Peter’s Priory, and is now a perpetual curacy, valued at £150, in the gift of the parishioners, and incumbency of the Rev. Charles Ward, M.A.

ST. PETER’S is one of the most ancient churches in the town, standing close to the site of Wolsey’s College. It is a plain structure, consisting of a chancel, nave, aisles, south porch, and a tower containing six bells. The tower is a good specimen of the flint work so frequently observed in Suffolk and Norfolk. In 1842–3, the church was repaired and repewed, and the burial ground enclosed. A new gallery was erected in 1848. The font is very ancient, and covered with carvings of animals. The perpetual curacy, valued at £138, is in the gift of Simeon’s Trustees, and incumbency of the Rev. H. T. Lumsden, M.A.

ST. STEPHEN’S is one of the churches mentioned in Domesday Book, and is mostly built of flint, except the tower, which is brick cemented. It contains a monument, with kneeling effigies of Wm. Leeman and his wife. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £4. 12s. 8½d., and now at £150, is in the patronage of the Rev. W. Burgess, and incumbency of the Rev. Thos. Davidson, B.A.

CHAPELS.—The twelve parish churches, and the chapel of ease just described, have seat room for about 8,500 persons; and there is accommodation for about 10,000 in the sixteen other places of worship in the town, of which four belong to Baptists, three to Independents, two to Wesleyans, and one each to Roman Catholics, Unitarians, Friends, Primitive Methodists, Swedenborgians, and Jews.

TACKET STREET INDEPENDENT CHAPEL was erected in 1720, by the Presbyterian congregation, who had previously, for more than 40 years, occupied a small chapel in the Green yard, St. Peter’s, and were the successors of the NONCONFORMISTS, who were so called from their refusing to subscribe to everything contained in the Book of Common Prayer, as required by the Act of Uniformity, passed soon after the restoration of Charles II. This chapel will seat about 800 hearers, and has a good organ and a burial ground. Near it is a house for the minister, the Rev. W. Notcutt, whose grandfather officiated here till his death in 1756, in his 84th year. The INDEPENDENT CHAPEL, in St. Nicholas’ street, is a neat Gothic structure, which was opened in 1829. It has about 1000 sittings, including the galleries erected in 1839 and 1845. The Rev. J. Raven is the minister. SALEM INDEPENDENT CHAPEL, in St. George’s street, is small, and the Rev. J. Gay is its minister.

The UNITARIAN CHAPEL, in St. Nicholas’ street, is one of the oldest chapels in the town, and has a beautifully carved pulpit, and about 1,200 sittings. Its congregation originated from the meetings of the Nonconformists about 1660, and was for many years Presbyterian, but the chapel was not built till 1700. The Rev. Henry Knott is the present pastor.

The FRIENDS’ MEETING HOUSE, in Bank street, was built in 1796, and will seat about 700 hearers.

The ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL, on the Woodbridge road, was erected in 1825, and enlarged in 1839, chiefly at the expence of its first priest, the Rev. P. L. Simon, one of the refugees who left France at the commencement of the Revolution, and resided here till his death, in September, 1839. It is a small building in the early English style, with sittings for 700. Its priests reside at Stoke by Nayland.

The BAPTIST CHAPEL, in Dairy lane, was built by a congregation of Baptists formed in 1758. It has 800 sittings, and is under the ministry of the Rev. Thos. Poock. ZOAR CHAPEL, in David street, was built in 1841, by the Baptists who seceded from Dairy lane chapel in 1829. It cost about £900, and has 500 sittings, but no pews. TURRET LANE CHAPEL, erected in 1842, belongs to the Particular Baptists, and is under the ministry of the Rev. Isaac Lord. STOKE CHAPEL is the largest of the four Baptist chapels in Ipswich, and was erected in 1774, but has since been rebuilt and several times enlarged, so that it will now seat about 900 hearers. It is an octangular building, and is now under the ministry of the Rev. J. Webb.

The WESLEYAN CHAPEL, in New Market lane, was erected in 1816, and is a neat brick building, containing about 1000 sittings. The WESLEYAN ASSOCIATION METHODIST CHAPEL, in Friar street, was built in 1837, for about 850 hearers; and the PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL, in Rope lane, was built in 1839, and has about 500 sittings.

The JEWS’ SYNAGOGUE, in Rope lane, is a small brick building with pointed windows. The Jews have a small burial ground in Salter’s lane, and Mr. Levy Lamburgh is their rabbi.

The NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH, in High street, is a small building erected in 1847, by Swedenborgians, and now under the ministry of the Rev. D. G. Goyder, M.D.

The PLYMOUTH BRETHREN have a meeting room in Prince’s street.

CLERGY, GENTRY, &c.

Abbott, Rev., St. George’s terrace, Globe lane Adye, Mrs. Elizabeth S., Silent street Aldrich, Rev. William, Northgate street Alexander, Richard D., Esq., Saint Matthew’s street Alexander, Capt. Henry, Woodbridge road Alexander, Miss Jane, St. Helen’s street Anness, Richard, St. Austin’s street, St. Peter’s Archer, Mr. William, Woodbridge road Bacon, Edward, Esq., Tavern street Baker, Mrs. Sarah, Carr street Barney, Mr. William M., Victoria road Bartlett, Mrs. E., Lower Brook street Blanchflower, Rev. George, Wesleyan minister, St. George’s terrace, Globe lane Boby, Mr. William, Tacket street Bond, Henry Cooper, Esq., St. Helen’s street Bond, Mrs. Maria, St. Margaret’s street Baynes William, Esq., Berrington road Bradley, Mr. Jonathan B., St. Matthew’s terrace, London road Bridges, John Hart, Friars’ road Broadbank, Mrs. Elizabeth, St. Margaret’s plain Brown, William, Esq., Gyppeswyk hall Bruff, Peter, Esq., Handford lodge, Handford road Buck, Mr. George, Woodbridge road Buck, Mrs. Mary, Norwich road Burton, Joseph, Esq., Bolton hill Burrows, Samuel, Esq., Fonnereau road Burrows, Mr. Robert, senr., Victoria road Butcher, Mr. George Frederick, Barrington road Butler, the Misses, Berners street Byles, Jeremiah, Esq., Hill house Chapman, Samuel B., Esq., Berners street Chapman, Mr. H., Tower lodge, Tower str. Chevalier, Barrington, Esq., Grove house, St. Helen’s Churchman, William, Esq., Belmont terrace, London road Christie, John, Esq., Norwich road Clarke, Misses, St. Nicholas’ street Clarke, Mr. Joseph, Berners street Clarkson, Rev. William, Albert terrace, Norwich road Cobbold, John, Esq., Cliffe house Cobbold, John Chevalier, Esq., M.P., Tower street Cobbold, Mrs., Northgate street Cobbold, Arthur, Esq., Rose Hill cottage Coe, Charles, Esq., Berners street Cole, Mr. Ebenezer, St. Nicholas’ place Cole, Mr. James, Berners street Corder, Edward, Esq., Woodbridge road Corder, Mr. James, Berners street Cowell, Mrs. Martha, St. Nicholas’ street Cowell, Samuel Harrison, Esq., Berners st. Crisp, Miss Susanna, Norwich road Cutting, Miss Elizabeth, Haills terrace, London road Crowe, Mrs. Harriet, Woodbridge road Daniel, Rev. J. E., chaplain to the County gaol Davy, John, Esq., Bramford road Deane, Charles, Esq., Woodbridge road Dobson, Miss, St. Peter’s street Dove, Mrs., Berners street Eade, Mrs. Ann, Priory place Elwes, Timms H., Esq., Fonnereau road Ensor, Mrs. Hannah, Northgate street Faires, Mr. William B., Berners street Fison, Joseph, Esq., Stoke hill Fitch, Miss Emma, Norwich road Footman, Mrs. Harriet, Tower street Forter, Miss Louisa, Lower Brook street Fosdike, Mrs. Elizabeth, Silent street Frewer, Mr. Isaac, Berners street Fuller, Mr. James, Berners street Gale, Mr. William, Norwich road Goss, Miss Louisa, Park terrace Gooch, Miss Mary, Museum street Goodchild, Miss Emma, St. Helen’s str. Gower, C. F., Esq., Novia Scotia house, Wherstead road Green, Mr. William, Woodbridge road Groom, Mrs. Ann, London road Hardy, Mrs. Elizabeth, Orwell place Harper, Mrs. Mary, Norwich road Harcourt, Frederic, Esq., Norwich road Heath, Mrs., Belmont terrace, London road Head, Miss Caroline, Woodbridge road Hedge, J. H., Esq., North Lodge, Norwich rd Hill, Mrs. Mary, Park terrace Howard, Mr. Crisp, Berners street Hockley, Colonel, St. Matthew’s street Howth, Mrs. Eliza, Northgate street Hunt, Edward, Esq., Woodbridge road Hunt, John, Esq., Norwich road Hunt, Mr. J., St. Peter’s street Hunt, Miss Ann, London road Hunt, Mr. William, Fonnereau Innes, Miss Charlotte, Westgate street Jackson, Mrs. Sarah, Elm street Jaynes, Mrs. Mary Anne, Priory place Johnson, Mrs. Ann, Victoria road Jones, Mrs. Harriet, Globe lane Kittoe, Mrs., Northgate street Kelly, Sir Fitzroy, M.P. for East Suffolk, the Chantry Kembell, Hamment, Esq., Museum street Kent, Mr. Abraham, Curriers’ lane Kerrison, Roger H. Esq., Hill house, Woodbridge road Kindred, Mr. Matthew E., Berners street Last, Mrs. Elizabeth, Park terrace Lackard, Edward, Esq., Westfield house Lane, Samuel, Esq., Lower Brook street Leath, Thomas R., Esq., Woodbridge rd. Lester, Miss Mary Ann, Berners street Leverett, Mrs. Maria Ann, Berners street Lott, Miss, Westgate street Marriott, Mrs. Martha D., Woodbridge road Mason, Mrs. Eliza, Lower Brook street Mason, Rev. Thomas, Carr street Maw, John, Esq., Woodbridge road May, Mr. John M., Berners street Matthew, Mrs. Hannah, Promenade terrace, London road Mitchell, Mrs. Ann, Victoria road Morgan, Mrs. Louisa, Woodbridge road Morgan, Miss Elizabeth, Bolton hill Mudd, Mr. George, London road Neves, Mrs. Elizabeth, St. Nicholas’ street Orford, John, Esq., Brook hall, Norwich road Parker, Miss Betsy, Berners street Pering, Mrs. Mary, Berners street Perkin, Mrs. Mary Ann, St. Helen’s street Perry, Robert, Esq., Berners street Perry, Miss Sophia, Berners street Phillips, Lieut.-Col., Stoke hall Pitcairn, Mrs. May, Fonnereau road Pipe, Mrs. Ann, Tavern street Porter, Mrs. Mary Ann, Orwell place Powell, Miss, St. Peter’s street Pyemont, Miss, Park terrace Ram, James, Esq., barrister, Silent street Ramsay, Mrs. Jeannet, Berner street Ransome, Robert, Esq., Fonnereau road Ransome, James A., Esq., Carr street Ransome, Frederic, Esq., Lower Brook street Raven, Rev. John, Independent minister, Berners street Read, Mr. Edward, London road Ridley, Frederic, Esq., Adelphi place, Lower Brook street Ridley, Mrs. Marian, Adelphi place, Lower Brook street Rist, Mrs., Adelphi place, Lower Brook street Rudkin, John, Esq., Adelphi place, Lower Brook street Reeve, Mr. Robert, Berrington road Ridley, Samuel, Esq., Norwich road Rivers, Mrs., Woodbridge road Rodwell, William, Esq., Woodlands Root, Mr. William, jun., Lower Brook st. Sanders, Mrs. Elizabeth, Oriel cottage, London road Shuttleworth, Thomas, Esq., Rosary, Bramford road Sibly, Miss Urania, Globe lane Smith, Misses A. and C., Fonnereau road Spalding, Mrs. Rachel, Silent street Squirrill, Mr. Robert, Victoria road Stanford, Mrs., St. George’s terrace, Globe lane Stone, Misses M. and L., St. Nicholas, street Stebbings, Miss Susan, Orwell place Thurston, Mrs. Sarah B., Queen street Trill, Mrs. Louisa F., St. Matthew’s street Turner, Edward, College street Turner, Major, Westgate street Turner, Miss, London road Turner, the Misses, Christ Church park house Tunney, Mrs. Louisa, Foundation street Unwin, Mrs., Berners street Vulliamy, Frederic, Esq., St. Margaret’s green Ward, Rev. Charles, Woodbridge road Walford, Capt. William, of the royal navy, Haills terrace, London road Waitehill, Mrs., Adelphi place, Lower Brook street Ward, Miss Elizabeth, Priory place Webber, Samuel, Esq., White House Williams, Mr. Robert, Victoria road Whitbread, Captain, Promenade terrace, London road Walford, Desboro, London road Worts, Mr. Frederic, St. Nicholas’ street Waller, Mr. Stephen, Falcon street Welton, Edward, Esq., Woodbridge road Wood, Miss Mary, Woodbridge road Woodhouse, Rev. Walter, St. Helen’s, Woodbridge road Wood, Mr. William, Norwich road Woodward, Miss E., St. Matthew’s street

TRADES, PROFESSIONS, &c.