Gateway to Wolsey's College of St Mary is a Grade I listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1951. A Tudor Gateway.
Gateway to Wolsey's College of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- iron-chalk-ochre
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1951
- Type
- Gateway
- Period
- Tudor
- Address
- Gateway to Wolsey's College of St Mary, College Street
- OS grid reference
- TM 163 440
- Coordinates
- 52.05296, 1.15448
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gateway to Wolsey's College of St Mary is a historic brick structure located next to St Peter's Church Yard. It is the only remnant of the college founded by Cardinal Wolsey for Secular Canons in 1528, which was suppressed in 1530. The gateway features a 4-centred moulded brick archway with a square hood moulding, topped with the weathered stone arms of Henry VIII set within a moulded brick panel. This panel is flanked by niches that have cusped brick arches. Above the archway, there is a band of recessed panels decorated with quatrefoil moulding. The gateway is framed by two octagonal piers that rise in three stages. Although this was not the main entrance, it likely provided access to a quadrangle. To the west of the gateway, there is a small section of the boundary wall that extends north, marking the edge of St Peter's Churchyard.
Local climate
Gateway to Wolsey's College of St Mary sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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