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Ipswich
Sapling's City Gateways bring together all our content relating to specific cities in the UK and Ireland. This Gateway features links to web sites that are relevant to Ipswich and Suffolk, as well as details of local books, events and news.
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Sapling Bookstore (3)
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The Buildings of England - Suffolk
Nikolaus Pevsner, Enid Radcliffe (Editor)
(2002)
Hardcover - 568 pages
Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300096488
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
In this agricultural county of East Anglia, "scenery and buildings are a delight", wrote Pevsner. Numerous medieval houses and magnificent flint-faced churches with fine roofs and rich furnishings bear witness to the prosperity brought by the late medieval cloth trade. Castles are nobly represented by the unusual polygonal keep of Orford and the curtain-walled Framlingham, and great houses by a notable sequence of brick buildings of the sixteenth century. Among the coastal settlements are the lost town of Dunwich and picturesque Southwold; the varied inland towns range from Lavenham, remarkable for its exceptionally well preserved timber-framed buildings, to Bury St Edmunds, where fine Georgian houses are gathered around the precinct of the vast Norman abbey.
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Suffolk Churches
David Stanford
(2005)
Hardcover - 112 pages
Frances Lincoln Publishers
ISBN: 071122496X
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Fifty churches in Suffolk, chosen for their beauty, historical or anecdotal interest, are here featured in a series of captivating photographic portraits by David Stanford. They range from bulky Saxon and Norman round tower churches through to a Restoration church influenced by Christopher Wren's London works. Many of these places of worship suffered the iconoclastic ravages of Puritan zealots, such as William Dowsing, who carried out a series of destructive trips across Suffolk and Cambridgeshire in the 1640s, smashing and obliterating what were seen as 'superstitious images'. The results of these raids are visible in churches across the county, although some have miraculously survived relatively unscathed while others have been the object of Victorian restoration programmes, some sensitive, others eccentric. David Stanford's atmospheric photography captures the spirit of these unique buildings as architectural heritage, as historic monuments and as places of Christian devotion.
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Ipswich Past and Present
David Kindred
(2004)
Paperback - 128 pages
Sutton Publishing
ISBN: 0750939214
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This new book includes over 100 old photographs of Ipswich during the twentieth century, compared with the scene today. David Kindred, a professional photographer with over forty years' experience, provides a knowledgeable commentary together with all the contemporary photographs. Anyone interested in the history of this town will be surprised or depressed by turns at the changes the twentieth century has brought.
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