Ipswich IP4, Suffolk.
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Ipswich IP4, Suffolk.
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 28 May 2013
A glance along this side of St Helen's Street towards the town centre reveals the non-castellated part of the former County Hall building. The original castellated part was built in 1836-37 to a design by W. McIntosh Brooks and in a former life it also served as the local gaol and law court. It seems likely that this end of the building with the pitched roof is the 1906 extension, built when the whole building became the offices of Ipswich Corporation. The whole site served as the headquarters of East Suffolk County Council until March 2004 when its staff moved to new offices. It was in this court that Mrs Wallace Simpson was granted the decree nisi from her first husband, freeing her to marry the future king when he abdicated from the English throne in 1936. This Grade II-listed building is currently empty and is considered to be in a very poor state of repair internally.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.056489
Longitude
1.16264