Tiles, marble and painted stone gleam after their recent refurbishment. You can see his signature on the back of St Luke's icon of the Blessed Virgin. The bench ends show the Ipswich symbols of a seahorse, and a lion carrying a ship. If you look carefully at the back of the church, however, you will see that the churchwardens pews still retain their medieval bench ends. The arcades are from the medieval church, and must have had a slender grace rather lost now - they yearn for white light to enfold them.
Victorian colour gleams beyond the creamy arcades.
The famous Cobbold family provided ministers for this church for many years in the 18th and 19th centuries, and their tombs can be seen in the north chancel aisle, beyond the organ. The family embraced Tractarianism wholeheartedly, being largely responsible for the building of St Bartholomew near their home in Holywells Park. They probably had an influence over the banker Edward Bacon, whose wealth went towards the rebuilding, and whose symbol of a boar may be found in the floor tiles. One memorial you must not miss is that to William Smart, MP for Ipswich, which you can find on the wall in the north west corner of the nave. It is painted on wood, and features a panoramic view of the Ipswich townscape as it was in 1599, when he died.