[1] An Augustinian priory dedicated to St Peter and Paul occupied a six-acre site to the north and east of the church.

As the secular canons regularly used the chancel for religious purposes, leaving the nave for use of parishioners, the church was also known as St Peter and Paul's.

[3] The church was located just north of a ford by which visitors arriving in Ipswich could cross the River Orwell.

On 8 January 1297, Edward I married his youngest daughter Elizabeth of Rhuddlan to John I, Count of Holland in this earlier church.

The building was reopened in 2008 as a heritage centre and is maintained by the Ipswich Historic Churches Trust.