Ipswich St Mary at Quay

Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 27 Oct 2007

Is it Quay or Key, who knows? Both are used for the church and street names. There is a large key on the weather vane of the church and it is near the Quay. The church was made redundant and is cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust. It is an Arts Centre but retains the atmosphere of a church. The splendid double hammerbeam roof and clerestory offer plenty of space and light. The traditional East Anglian-type font is much defaced but an eagle, bull and lion of the evangelists can just be discerned among the heraldic angels, and round the shaft are the usual four lions. In the north aisle there is a black monument to Henry Tooley (1551) who was an important local benefactor. A short distance away, in Foundation Street, his alms houses are still standing. A bell stands by the south door, having been removed from the belfry.

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