Chantry Park, Ipswich, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

A public park since 1928, derived from a gentleman's seat with a house built in the 17th century and modified in both the 18th and 19th centuries, sitting in an 18th-century park with two bodies of water and adorned on the south front by a parterre designed by a Mr Nesfield and modified in the early 20th century by the owner and Mr Notcutt of Woodbridge.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Chantry Park lies about three kilometres west of the centre of Ipswich on the south side of the Gipping valley, on the outer edge of the town suburbs. It covers about 50 hectares and is bounded on the north by Hadleigh Road and on the south by the A1214 (historically known as Crane Hill). To the east new housing development runs right up to the park boundary and the boundary to the west is bordered by farmland. The house sits in gently undulating parkland which falls to the north, west and east from the high point of Crane Hill. This topography allows views from the west park over the Gipping valley to the north and over countryside to the west. There are also filtered views east over the park from the South Avenue towards Ipswich.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

T K Cromwell, Excursions in the county of Suffolk (1819), p 179

William White, Directory of Suffolk (1844), p 258; (1855), p 228; (1892), p 644

Kelly, Directory of Suffolk (1844)

The Victoria History of the County of Suffolk (1907, reprinted 1975)

G Ball and R Cross, The Chantry 1509-1972 (1973)

N Pevsner and E Radcliffe, The Buildings of England: Suffolk (1975), p 308

Inspector's Report, (Debois Landscape Survey Group 1988)

Maps

J Hodskinson, The County of Suffolk, 1783

Tithe map for Sproughton, 1838 (East Suffolk Record Office)

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1880, published 1888; 2nd edition revised 1902, published 1905; 3rd edition revised 1924, published 1927

OS 25" to 1 mile: 2nd edition published 1904

Archival items

Sale particulars, 1867 (BL Maps 31 c.31), (British Library)
 

Description written: August 1998

Amended: June 1999

Edited: December 1999