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This stunning red brick Elizabethan house was built in 1548 for a wealthy merchant with cultural leanings, therefore it is entirely fitting that today the building is a charming museum showing a fascinating art collection.
The beautiful Tudor house was built at the behest of Edmund Withipoll, it remained with various members of this family until it was sold to Claude Fonnereau in around 1750. His family lived there until 1894, after-which the building was threatened with demolition. This was avoided by the generosity of Felix Cobold, a banker, who bought the mansion and presented it to Ipswich Corporation. It has been a museum since 1896.
In 1929 new galleries were built attached to the main building, including the Wolsey Art Gallery, here only the finest works of the Ipswich Museum are placed for public display.
The rooms in the house are furnished in a variety of period styles, from Tudor to Victorian and the Wingfield Room has panelling from the town house of the Wingfield family. All the rooms feature outstanding period furniture and pieces of antiquity.
Today, in this lovely house you can see a fine collection of works of art from several centuries, many of them by Suffolk artists. It has the finest collection of paintings by Gainsborough and Constable to be seen anywhere outside of London.
There are also constantly changing displays of contemporary art.
Christchurch Mansion in its beautiful parkland setting offers visitors a wonderful experience, it is not surprising therefore to learn it is now one of East Anglia's chief tourist attractions.
in the county of Suffolk
(0.8 miles, 1.2 km)This is a town that can trace its history back to the Stone-Age, it has been a successive settlement throughout the ages and has been populated by settlers from the Iron-Age,.....
in the county of Suffolk
(8.6 miles, 13.8 km, direction SW)This enchanting village gained lasting fame as Constable's birth place. It also has a very unusual medieval bell cage...
in the county of Essex
(9.1 miles, 14.6 km, direction S)Mistley lies on the south bank of the River Stour not far from Manningtree, to which it is joined via a tree-lined walk along the river which is oddly called The Walls...
a Historic Market Town in the county of Essex
(9.4 miles, 15.1 km, direction SW)The town shows fine examples of weavers cottages and walks through the town reveal fine Georgian facades behind which are Tudor and Elizabethan houses...
in the county of Suffolk
(9.8 miles, 15.7 km, direction SW)On arrival in Flatford there is little to prepare you for its overwhelming beauty, but you should not be surprised, for this after all is Constable Country, an area made famous by the great landscape painter and which features in so many of his pictures...
All towns in Suffolk
Sutton Hoo can be found amongst the marshy creeks and reedy rivers of Suffolk. It is perhaps most famous as the setting of one.....
Standing on the River Stour beneath the wonderful open Suffolk sky, Flatford Mill, one of the 18th century water-mills owned by.....
The Dedham Art & Craft Centre is situated in the heart of Constable Country, on the North Essex/Suffolk border. In this.....
Landguard Fort lies off the southern end of Felixstowe. The first fort was built here by Henry VIII in the 1540's to guard the.....
On reaching the curve of Market Hill a quaint, colourful sign proclaims to the visitor that you have arrived in the pretty market.....
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