3-008-358 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Ipswich, 1862. 'The new building stands on high and rising ground to the north of the town...[and] overlooks the Arboretum...and commands an extensive view of the beautiful River Orwell and the rich valley of the Gipping on the south and west. The building possesses quite a collegiate appearance, in the Tudor style, having a frontage of 168ft. and a depth on the south of 110ft. The front elevation, with its projecting porch and gables, pinnacles and parapets, has a very pleasing effect. The porch of the main entrance is a facsimile of a much-admired relic, Wolsey's Gate, which still stands in another part of the town; and the entire building, built with red brick and black mortar, is in strict accordance with it - a very happy idea, thus connecting the present with the past in a very effective manner. At the several external angles octagonal buttresses rise above the springing of the gables and ornamental parapets, and terminate in pinnacles. A tower, 70ft. high, crowns the entrance-hall. Internally the arrangements are complete and convenient. A detached chapel stands at the north-east end; and in the rear is a playground covering an area of 6¼ acres'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.