The Well Chapel
'The House of Flame'
at
Paradise Now, Mow Hill Witnesham, Ipswich, Suffolk.
IP6 9EH U.K

"Where the Faculties of The Soul become The Attributes of God."

From Christian Mysticism by Dean W.R.Inge

Is situated five miles north of Ipswich on the B1077 at the very top of Mow Hill on the left, just up from The Barley Mow Public House. Alternatively, if you are travelling into Witnesham from the northerly direction then come straight through the village and finding America Hill, again we are at the top on the right.

Witnesham is a long... pleasant village deriving its name from the anglo-saxon 'Witta's Settlement' or farm. 
The delightful Anglican Church of St. Mary's down Church Lane dates from around the early 1200's and we also have a thriving Baptist Church on the main Upper Road which owes a debt of gratitude for its continued existence to the farmer, the late John Cross.
It has a fine Primary School - next to the Swilland Moon and Mushroom Pub - well worth a visit! as is, if golf is your passion, the excellent Fynn Valley Golf Club and Restaurant which draws people from all over the country.
It is home to Witnesham Nursing Home, the Woodyard for the highly respected Furniture making firm in Ipswich Titchmarsh and Goodwin and the H.Q of Tastes of Anglia Ltd.
William Kirby 'The Father of Entomology' was born at Witnesham Hall in 1759 and the artists Leonard Squirell R.W.S, R.E and the world famous cartoonist Carl Giles both lived in the village.

                 THE CHAPEL HAS BEEN GRANTED BRITISH TOURIST 
                         AUTHORITY VISITOR ATTRACTION STATUS

If you are visiting the Chapel from a distance and require accommodation, please see www.millhousebedandbreakfast.co.uk or www.mrsjanegoodltd.co.uk/property/oldstablewitnesham.html or www.choosesuffolk.com  or www.visit-ipswich.com and...

well...worth a visit when you are in the area are three places of great interest.
Firstly, and also on the B1077,  the magnificent Helmingham Hall with its Internationally renowned grade 1 Listed Gardens, see www.helmingham.com , secondly Otley Hall,a delightful Retreat Centre, see www.otleyhall.co.uk and thirdly St. Michael's Church, Boulge, see www.poetsgraves.co.uk/fitzgerald.htm

"Then to this earthen bowl
did I adjourn my lip
the secret well of life
to learn..."     from Edward Fitzgeralds translation of The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam


Telephone: 01473 785 672

Email: thewell.chapel@virgin.net

Bishop: The Rt. Revd Charles P. Mugleston was Lay Anglican Student Chaplain at The University of Essex 1990 - 93, was Ordained Priest in the Liberal Catholic Church at The Pro-Cathedral, All Saints, Putney London in 2002 and was Consecrated an Independent Bishop at The Well Chapel in August 2007 by The Most Revds John Kersey & Andrew Linley and Bishop Michael Skelly.
He is a member of The Churches Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies.

"If you have experienced an inner realization of your real Self as the Christ within you, and your phenomenal self as only the instrument used by this greater Self, Christ, you will become very humble. You will no longer have any attachment to, still less claim any reward for, your deeds, however good: for you will know that they do not belong to you at all."

From The Journey Inwards by Francis Happold

"How silent is TAO, how mysteriously hidden, yet how sought for!
Tao doeth all things, yet appeareth to do nothing, no sound is heard."

Tao-Teh-King Lao Tsze

"Go sweep out the chamber of your heart.
Make it ready to be the dwelling place of The Beloved.
When you depart out, He will enter In.
In you, void of yourself, will He display
His Beauties."

From The Rose Garden of Mystery
by Shabistari (13th cent)

THE GARDEN OF ONE LIGHT

HAVE US BORN ANEW AND LET US POSSESS OUR BEING THROUGH THE PROVIDENCE OF LIGHT.
TEACH US TO RESPECT THE ESSENCE OF ALL RELIGIONS, AND LEAD US TO LEARN THE ONE ULTIMATE TRUTH.
HAVE US PERFORM ALL OUR DUTIES OUT OF HUMILITY -  THE WELL OF INFINITE WISDOM AND COMPASSION AND DO ALL OUR WORK OUT OF GRATITUDE.
ENABLE US TO PERFECT THE WAY OF OUR LIVING BY COMPLETELY SUBMITTING TO THE LAWS OF NATURE.
GRANT THAT WE MAY RETURN TO THE LAND OF 'PERFUMED NOOK OF HEAVENLY FLOWERS' - NIRVANA - AND SO TREAD IN THE PARADISE OF LIGHT.  A Shinto Prayer

"Our deepest self - knowledge unfolds as we are embraced by Beauty."
John O'Donohue

 

PARADISE NOW