Christchurch Mansion

Christchurch Mansion

      in Ipswich, Suffolk, Eng., Tudor mansion built between 1548 and 1550 by Edmund Withipoll and now maintained as an art gallery and museum that is part of the Ipswich Museum of Art. The mansion houses a collection of local antiquities, including paintings and memorials of Edward Fitzgerald and Thomas Wollner. It has fine 16th-century paneling and part of a marble font from Tournai.

      The Wolsey Gallery was built in 1931 at the back of the mansion as a memorial to Cardinal Wolsey, a native of Ipswich, on the 400th anniversary of his death. Major works by East Anglian artists hang in the gallery, including works by Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable, and John Sell Cotman.

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