Ipswich town stocks & whipping post Christchurch Mans.

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich - Old Ipswich Town Stocks and Whipping Post - c.1920s
• Publisher:  Ipswich Corporation Museum Committee
• Postally used:  no - writing but not posted
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s):  n/a
• Sent to:  n/a
• Notes & Key words:  minor wear

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Christchurch Mansion is a stately home within Christchurch Park on the edge of the town centre of Ipswich, Suffolk, England now owned by the town and housing a museum.

The Grade I listed building mansion houses a collection of pottery and glass, a contemporary art gallery and a collection of paintings by artists including John Constable and Thomas Gainsborough. There are rooms preserved as past inhabitants would have known them, complete with original items of fine clothing.^[1] The house sits within a 70 acres (280,000 m²) public park which features many beautiful trees, rolling lawns and ponds.

Christchurch Park was originally the grounds of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, with an area of many square miles, coming up to the medieval town walls. During Henry VIIIs dissolution of the monasteries, the monastery was dissolved and the land was purchased by Sir Edmund Withipoll, who built the mansion in 1548-50, the ground floor of which remains largely as he left it. His granddaughter Elizabeth Withipoll married Leicester Devereux, 6th Viscount Hereford and the mansion passed to the Devereux family, who rebuilt the upper floors after a fire in about 1670, when the main porch was also added.^[2] In 1734, Claude Fonnereau purchased the mansion from Price Devereux, 10th Viscount Hereford. A road next to the park is named after the family.

The mansion was bought by Felix Cobbold from a syndicate of property developments 1894 to save the building from demolition. Cobbold, a weathly local businessman and philanthropist, then offered to give it to the Ipswich Corporation to establish a Museum and Art Gallery, together with a further £20,000 in Ipswich Stock for the purchase of artworks.^[3] His offer was on condition that the corporation buys the surrounding parkland for the people of Ipswich. It took Cobbold three attempts to get the corporation to agree to this, but in February 1895 the mansion was transferred to the town and in April 1895 the corporation purchased the central part of the park. The corporation acquired the upper arboretum in 1928.^[4] Felix Cobbold, among other members of the wealthy Cobbold family have donated a great deal of land to the people of Ipswich, including Ipswich Racecourse.