Due to the location of this cache, please can I ask you not to attempt this after dark
Woolverstone Church sits not far from Woolverstone Hall. The Hall was built in 1776 by John Johnson for William Berners. The elevation towards the river is even grander. After being requisitioned during the war, it became a boarding school for the GLC. The writer Ian McEwan is a famous ex-pupil. The school closed in the 1980s; its massive library was broken up, and you regularly come across items from it in Suffolk's second-hand bookshops. The Hall lay empty for several years, until another school moved out here from central Ipswich, and restored it to something like its former glory. This church has benefited from an extraordinarily important pair of architects, in the 1860s, Sir George Gilbert Scott, presumably taking a country break from St John's College Chapel, Cambridge, rebuilt the chancel. It is as unremarkable as his work at St Peter in Ipswich; but, as they say, quality counts. In 1889, the maverick J.P. St Aubyn rebuilt the nave. But he must have been going through one of his sensible periods. The snazzy parapet and pinnacles are more typical of him, and it surmounts what is still basically a 15th century tower. As so often, the 15th century porch has survived all this upheaval, and there is, apparently, an aumbry to be seen inside, as well as some decent 19th and 20th century glass.
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