[1][2] It was in the churchyard of St Mary that the town charter of Ipswich was written in 1200.

The church has a large three-manual pipe organ, which has its origins in an instrument by Renatus Harris of 1690.

[8] There was subsequent work by Henry Willis, Spurden Rutt and Bishop and Son.

[9] Originally there were five bells and a Sanctus in 1553 of which Miles Graye I of Colchester recast the Treble in 1607 and the Tenor in 1610.

With the addition of a sharp second in 1980, the current bells are all by John Taylor of Loughborough (except for No.