WOLSEY'S GATE & STATUE
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey was born in Ipswich and Wolsey's Gate near the town's Waterfront, is testament to the great college that was destroyed in the Reformation
Wolseys Gate
Cardinal Wolsey is best known as King Henry VIII's Chancellor - effectively the second most important man in Tudor England. He was born in Ipswich, the son of a butcher, and had great plans to build a college to rival Oxford. All that remains today is Wolsey's Gate and St Peter's Church, which was to be the college chapel.
A new memorial to Cardinal Wolsey by leading sculptor David Annand has been unveiled on Curson Plain at the corner of Silent Street opposite where Wolsey lived in his childhood.