Churches in Suffolk - Our Lady of Ipswich, St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Wattisham Strict Baptist Chapel, St. Mary's Church, Bury St. Edmunds, (Paperback)

Chapters: Our Lady of Ipswich, St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Wattisham Strict Baptist Chapel, St. Mary's Church, Bury St. Edmunds, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Our Lady of Ipswich (also known as Our Lady of Grace) was a popular English Marian shrine before the English Reformation. Only the shrine at Walsingham attracted more visitors. The shrine was just outside the walls of Ipswich, Suffolk, England. The site of the original shrine was just outside the west gate of the medieval town wall of Ipswich, today this is marked by a plaque and a statue of Our Lady. A modern shrine is now in the Anglican parish church of Saint Mary Elms, a short distance away. Anglo-Saxon England sheltered many shrines to the Virgin Mary: shrines were dedicated to her at Glastonbury in 540, Evesham in 702, Tewkesbury in 715, Canterbury in 866, Willesden in 939, Abingdon before 955, Ely in 1020, Coventry in 1043, York in 1050, and Walsingham in 1061. By the High Middle Ages there were sixteen shrines to Mary in Suffolk alone, the shrine to Our Lady of Grace at Ipswich receiving its first recorded mention in 1152. The shrine became important during the High Middle Ages. In 1297 the daughter of Edward I, Princess Elizabeth, married the Count of Holland in the shrine. Between 1517 and 1522, Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon paid separate visits to the shrine, as did Sir Thomas More and Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who was born in Ipswich. The shrine was suppressed during the English Reformation, and its famous statue was taken to Chelsea to be burnt, along with the statue of Our Lady of Walsingham on 20 September 1538. There are no eyewitness accounts of the statue actually being burnt, although it is documented that the statue arrived at Chelsea. Regarding the image, Thomas C...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=951854