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Welcome
to the web pages for the recently opened St Nicholas Centre,
the new conference and resource facility in the heart of
Ipswich town centre. The centre provides
a central location for conferences, meetings, exhibitions
and concerts for the Church,
businesses and community orgnanisations .
The
History of St Nicholas
The church is a Grade 2* Listed Building built
in the early 14th century to serve a neighbourhood that
spread along the road from Ipswich towards the settlement
at Stoke. In 1475 Thomas Wolsey, who later became Lord Chancellor
of England under Henry VIII, was baptised in the church. |
In
2001, after a 20 year period of redundancy, the diocese
bought the church from the Ipswich Borough Council for £1,
who had let it to the Ipswich Historic Churches Trust.
The
Future of St Nicholas
A modern glass sided building links St Nicholas’ to
the diocesan office. It is a place of meeting, open to all.
This ‘hub’ is cleverly designed to have as little
contact with the fabric of the church as possible and was
built without undue disturbance of the ancient churchyard.
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