St Margaret's Church, Ipswich

St Margaret's Church, Ipswich
St Margaret's Church, Ipswich
St Margaret's Church as seen from St Margaret's Green
St Margaret's Church, Ipswich Location in Suffolk
52.06318°N 1.15742°E / 52.06318; 1.15742
OS grid reference	TM 166 441
Location	Ipswich, Suffolk
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	stmargaretsipswich.org.uk
History
Founded	c.1300
Dedication	St Margaret of Antioch
Architecture
Heritage designation	Grade I
Designated	19 December 1951
Architectural type	Church
Style	Perpendicular Gothic
Specifications
Materials	Flint with stone dressings

St Margaret's Church is a medieval church in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. It was built in around 1300 by the Augustinian canons of the adjacent Priory of the Holy Trinity to cater for the increasing population.[1] The building and much of the congregation was located just outside the ramparts to the north of medieval Ipswich.

The building dates from the 15th century, but the tower was rebuilt in the 19th century.[2]

Architectural features

Roof

The hammerbeam roof dates from the fifteenth century, but a number of paintings were added in the late seventeenth century following the Glorious Revolution.[2]

Church organ

The organ was bought in 1981.[3] It had previously been installed in Holy Trinity Church, Bedford, but this church had become redundant in 1974.[4] It was originally installed J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd in 1859.[3] The organ was originally tuned to the Old Philharmonic pitch (A452.5). However this was deflated to the current ISO 16 Stuttgart pitch when the organ was cleaned and repaired in 2012–3.[3]

Gallery

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  St. Margaret's Church, 1977
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  Wedding in 1989
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  View from Christchurch Park, 2009
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  Winter view later that year
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  The nave in 2020

Patronage

The Simeon Trustees have held the patronage of St Margaret's for a number of years.[5] In 1867 they appointed Samuel Garratt as minister of the church.[6]

Incumbents

The following people were incumbents of St Margarets since the abolition of the Priory of the Holy Trinity until 1994.[7]

1547 John Slough 1547 William Swarston 1552 Thomas Pyknot 1555 Lawrence Wayterwarde 1557 John Goffe or Gough 1561 Thomas Bakelar 1581 Robert Norton, DD 1587 Thomas Carew 1592 John Baldwin 1595 John Gleson 1598 Edmund Galaway 1603 Thomas Carter 1621 Richard Burch 1624 George Turnbull 1633 William Geast 1649 Nicholas Stanton 1652 Tristram Rose 1652 Joseph Waite 1658 Cave Beck 1707 Edmund Beeston 1716 William Mathews

1725 John Gaudy 1726 Richard Brome 1763 William Cornwallis 1786 Charles Cornwallis 1798 Claude William Fonnereau 1805 Charles William Fonnereau LLB 1840 George Murray 1854 John Owen 1867 Samuel Garratt, MA 1895 Percival Smith 1899 Arthur Lillingston MA 1905 Henry Williamson MA 1923 George Irwin BD 1923 Robert KnoxMA 1929 Frederick Millar MA 1939 Thomas Battersby MA 1959 Howard Marks MA 1971 Christopher Gane MA 1988 John Mockford MA 1994 David Cutts, BSc BA

References

1. Woodings, Ann; Hampson, David; Evans, David (2017). St Margaret's Church, Ipswich. Ipswich: St Margaret's PCC.
2. Knott, Simon. "St Margaret, Ipswich". www.suffolkchurches.co.uk. Simon Knott. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
3. Evans, David (2013). The History and Specifications of St Margaret's Church Ipswich. Ipswich: St Margaret's PCC.
4. "Bedford - Trinity Church". The Virtual Library. Bedford Borough Council. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
5. "Our Parishes". Simeon's Trustees and Hyndman's Trustees. Simeon's Trustees and Hyndman's Trustees. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
6. "Obituary Canon Garratt". Times (22 March 1906): 11. 1906. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
7. Northeast, Peter. "A list of the known incumbents of St Margaret's Church" (PDF). St Margaret's Church, Ipswich. St Margaret's Church, Ipswich. Retrieved 11 September 2023.