Alan Road Methodist Church
As part of the investigation into Rosehill Library, the local churches have been included on this site. Walking from the Bishop's Hill end of Rosehill Road you pass on the left first, 'The Old Manse', with its large main entrance at the side of the house, then the side wall of the Methodist Church on the corner of Alan Road (see Street name derivations).
The view of Alan Road Methodist Church and Hall with a rather battered 'Rosehill Road' street sign in the foreground. The Ipswich Borough Council Local List text: "Alan Road Methodist Church. Built in 1880 as the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel by AlfredHubert. Redbrick with early Art Nouveau windows. The adjoining schoolroom of 1877 was probably the original chapel. The building occupies a corner site at the junction of Alan Road and Rosehill Road and is of considerable importance through its dominating gabled ridge line and arched porch."
2012 images'THIS
MEMORIAL STONE
WAS LAID BY
EDWARD GRIMWADE ESQ.
NOV 16TH 1877'
MEMORIAL STONE
WAS LAID BY
EDWARD GRIMWADE ESQ.
NOV 16TH 1877'
The first of five
foundation/memorial tablets is seen above with its cartouch shape,
fleur-de-lys upper corners and arching, condensed capitals in the
second line. Around the corner, to the left of the main entrance is a
second tablet:
'WESLYAN
CHAPEL
–
THIS
MEMORIAL STONE
WAS LAID BY
WILLIAM PRETTY ESQR
ON THE 7TH OCTOBER 1880'
And directly opposite on the north side, one of the original street signs:
As far as we can tell there is no lettering on the exterior of St Bartholomew's Church itself.
For Holy Trinity Church and former Vicarage click here.
Related pages:
House name plaque examples: Alston Road; Bramford Road; Cauldwell Hall Road; Cavendish Street; Marlborough Road; Broom Hill Road
Rosehill Library case study; Rosehill house names;
Margaret Hancock's research on the history of the Rosehill area;
Ipswich & Suffolk Freehold Land Society (F.L.S.); California;
Street index; Origins of street names in Ipswich; Streets named after slavery abolitionists;
Dated buildings list; Dated buildings examples;
Named buildings list; Named (& sometimes dated) buildings examples;
Street nameplate examples; Brickyards.
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THIS
MEMORIAL STONE
WAS LAID BY
WILLIAM PRETTY ESQR
ON THE 7TH OCTOBER 1880'
Then further down Alan
Road is the hall of the Methodist Church with three more tablets:
'THIS STONE WAS LAID BY
MRS EDWARD PRETTY
ON 29TH SEPTEMBER 1929
ON BEHALF OF ALAN ROAD WORKERS
PAST AND PRESENT'
MRS EDWARD PRETTY
ON 29TH SEPTEMBER 1929
ON BEHALF OF ALAN ROAD WORKERS
PAST AND PRESENT'
'THIS STONE WAS LAID BY
MRS RUSSELL PAUL
ON 25TH SEPTEMBER 1929
IN MEMORY OF HER FATHER
THE LATE WILLIAM PRETTY'
The interior
Incised into the flat face of buff/red bricks are a range of initial capital letters including: ' IN MEM' (twice), mounted on grids on either side of the central brass memorial plate.
A glimpse of the arched ceilings, brackets and mouldings in two of the rooms.
Below: ceiling bosses and vents.
St Bartholomew's Church
Further up Rosehill Road on the corner with Newton Road is St Bartholomew's Church.
And to show just how the church is hemmed in by surrounding houses and gardens...
And the view from Newton Road, complete with well cared-for WWII Anderson shelter in the foreground. The eastern gable wall has a large elaborate circular window with double mandala shape tracery and Art Nouveau stained glass, the leading just visible in the photograph.
2014 images
The Church of St Batholomew is Listed Grade II: "Parish church. 1896. Designed by Chas Spooner. Red brick with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof. Nave with aisles and a chancel under a single roof. Western entrance front with projecting porch between 2 very deep gabled buttresses, with a copper lean-to roof. Central doorway with triple chamfered and moulded arch, and double doors. Above an enormous 7 light window within a deeply chamfered, pointed arched surround, with hood mould and label stops. Above, in the gable is ashlar diaper work. The aisles have 3 pairs of pointed arched windows with buttresses between them. The eastern gable wall has a large elaborate circular window with double mandala shape tracery. Interior has 3 bay nave arcades with double chamfered and moulded arches which die into octagonal piers with moulded bases. Contemporary marble pulpit. The eastern circular window has Art Nouveau stained glass."
On 199 Rosehill Road, diagonally opposite the church, we find:
MRS RUSSELL PAUL
ON 25TH SEPTEMBER 1929
IN MEMORY OF HER FATHER
THE LATE WILLIAM PRETTY'
'THIS STONE WAS LAID BY
MISS MAY PRETTY
ON 25TH SEPTEMBER 1929
IN MEMORY OF HER FATHER
THE LATE WILLIAM PRETTY.'
MISS MAY PRETTY
ON 25TH SEPTEMBER 1929
IN MEMORY OF HER FATHER
THE LATE WILLIAM PRETTY.'
The interior
'MEMORIAL
STONES
IN CONNECTION WITH THIS BUILDING
WERE LAID ON NOVEMBER 29, 1903
BY...'
IN CONNECTION WITH THIS BUILDING
WERE LAID ON NOVEMBER 29, 1903
BY...'
Incised into the flat face of buff/red bricks are a range of initial capital letters including: ' IN MEM' (twice), mounted on grids on either side of the central brass memorial plate.
A glimpse of the arched ceilings, brackets and mouldings in two of the rooms.
Below: ceiling bosses and vents.
St Bartholomew's Church
Further up Rosehill Road on the corner with Newton Road is St Bartholomew's Church.
And to show just how the church is hemmed in by surrounding houses and gardens...
And the view from Newton Road, complete with well cared-for WWII Anderson shelter in the foreground. The eastern gable wall has a large elaborate circular window with double mandala shape tracery and Art Nouveau stained glass, the leading just visible in the photograph.
2014 imagesThe Church of St Batholomew is Listed Grade II: "Parish church. 1896. Designed by Chas Spooner. Red brick with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof. Nave with aisles and a chancel under a single roof. Western entrance front with projecting porch between 2 very deep gabled buttresses, with a copper lean-to roof. Central doorway with triple chamfered and moulded arch, and double doors. Above an enormous 7 light window within a deeply chamfered, pointed arched surround, with hood mould and label stops. Above, in the gable is ashlar diaper work. The aisles have 3 pairs of pointed arched windows with buttresses between them. The eastern gable wall has a large elaborate circular window with double mandala shape tracery. Interior has 3 bay nave arcades with double chamfered and moulded arches which die into octagonal piers with moulded bases. Contemporary marble pulpit. The eastern circular window has Art Nouveau stained glass."
On 199 Rosehill Road, diagonally opposite the church, we find:
'BARTHOLOMEW
VILLAS
1895'
For more house name plaques in this road see Rosehill house names.VILLAS
1895'
And directly opposite on the north side, one of the original street signs:
'ROSEHILL ROAD'
The
original cast iron sign at the corner of Newton Road and Rosehill Road
sits between the burglar
alarm and the air conditioning unit. The metal flanges which clip it to
the wall are visible, but thick rendering and much whitewash have meant
that this sign is easy to miss.The painted sign at the corner of
the M.E.A.T. (Ipswich) Limited shop:
'PROFESSIONALISM, ENTHUSIASM, PRIDE'
signed at lower left: 'IAN BENNETT 28.11.1989'. Who is this 'enthusiastic' biblical butcher caressing a cleaver?
'PROFESSIONALISM, ENTHUSIASM, PRIDE'
signed at lower left: 'IAN BENNETT 28.11.1989'. Who is this 'enthusiastic' biblical butcher caressing a cleaver?
As far as we can tell there is no lettering on the exterior of St Bartholomew's Church itself.
For Holy Trinity Church and former Vicarage click here.
Related pages:
House name plaque examples: Alston Road; Bramford Road; Cauldwell Hall Road; Cavendish Street; Marlborough Road; Broom Hill Road
Rosehill Library case study; Rosehill house names;
Margaret Hancock's research on the history of the Rosehill area;
Ipswich & Suffolk Freehold Land Society (F.L.S.); California;
Street index; Origins of street names in Ipswich; Streets named after slavery abolitionists;
Dated buildings list; Dated buildings examples;
Named buildings list; Named (& sometimes dated) buildings examples;
Street nameplate examples; Brickyards.
©2004 Copyright throughout the Ipswich Historic Lettering site: Borin Van Loon
No reproduction of text or images without express written permission