Church Micro 8409... Ipswich - St Bartholomew Multi-Cache

St Bartholomew's church was architect was Charles Spooner first church. He built it for his aunt Anna Spooner, who had been born Anna Cobbold. She came from a branch of the famous Ipswich family which had provided a number of Suffolk High Churchmen, the most famous of whom was Richard Cobbold

The following is taken from Simon Knott's Suffolk Churches website.

The church is slightly later in date than many of the houses, consecrated in 1895 and completed in 1907. The architect was Charles Spooner, who seems to have had an Italian hilltop village in mind, rather than anything from this side of the Alps. The great flamboyante east window of this fine building overlooks vegetable plots and garden sheds, just as he intended it should. The red-brick exterior was planned to be offset by a tower, but this was never built. You can see where it would have been, to the north west. A lawn is there now.

Spooner's plans envisaded twelve-lights, which would perhaps have detracted somewhat from the east end, especially at evensong on a sunny evening. And yet, St Bartholomew might have been even more beautiful than it is. In the 1920s, a vast scheme of glass by the great Christopher Whall was planned, but it was never executed. It certainly would have made this a church of national significance.

A war memorial altar in the north aisle bears a simple crucifix. This church was brand new when the War that would change the Church of England forever began, taking away boys from the humble terraced streets all around. Across the church is an altar to Our Lady of Walsingham, one of only two in an Anglican church in Ipswich. A new altar sits in the nave, but still the great high altar with its six silver candlesticks remains, a triumphant symbol of the heady days of the Catholic revival. A cool little chapel in memory of George Cobbold, designed by Munro Cautley, sits beside the sanctuary. It is probably his most successful work in a church which was not his own. And all around, everything is devotional and striking. In the 1920s, many Anglican churches were like this, especially in urban areas, but that is all now finished with, especially in Suffolk. St Bart's now sits high and dry, and attracts a congregation from all over Ipswich.

To find the located of the final cache, you will need to answer the following 5 questions which can all be found on the Red section of the notice board. Final cache is within a 5 minute walk

N52 03.0AB

E001 10.CDE

A = First digit of the telephone number +1

B = Number of people shown on the cross

C = Third digit of the phone number

D = Third digit of the phone number minus the second digit

E = Fifth digit of the telephone number

This church holds many family memories, so delighhted to be able to place a CM here

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