Chelmondiston | |
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![]() St Andrew's Church, Chelmondiston | |
Location within
Suffolk | |
Area | 5.17 km2 (2.00 sq mi) |
Population | 1,054 (2011) [1] |
• Density | 204/km2 (530/sq mi) |
OS grid reference | TM204372 |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | IPSWICH |
Postcode district | IP9 |
Police | Suffolk |
Fire | Suffolk |
Ambulance | East of England |
UK Parliament | |
Chelmondiston is a small village and civil parish in Suffolk, England located on the Shotley Peninsula, five miles south-east of Ipswich. The hamlet of Pin Mill lies within the parish on the south bank of the River Orwell. The village comprises approximately 500 dwellings and has a population of just over 1,000. It is one of the largest villages situated on the Shotley Peninsula. [2]
The etymology of the word Chelmondiston is perhaps ‘Ceolmund’s dwelling’. The parish contains a number of Bronze Age barrow sites. Chelmondiston and Pin Mill do not appear in the Domesday Book of 1086. [3] It was formerly known as Chelmington [4] and was located in the old hundred of Babergh. [5]
The original parish church of St. Andrew was described in 1865 as an "old, small, dilapidated edifice, with a square tower", [6] and it was subsequently rebuilt by architect Edward Charles Hakewill. On 10 December 1944, during World War II, a flying bomb hit Hakewill's church and it was almost completely destroyed. [7] In 1951, Basil Hatcher was commissioned to provide a replacement. The modern St. Andrew's church includes a set of stained glass windows made by Francis Skeat in the 1960s. [8] There is also a Methodist church on the Main Road and a Baptist church on Pin Mill Road.
Chelmondiston | |
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![]() St Andrew's Church, Chelmondiston | |
Location within
Suffolk | |
Area | 5.17 km2 (2.00 sq mi) |
Population | 1,054 (2011) [1] |
• Density | 204/km2 (530/sq mi) |
OS grid reference | TM204372 |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | IPSWICH |
Postcode district | IP9 |
Police | Suffolk |
Fire | Suffolk |
Ambulance | East of England |
UK Parliament | |
Chelmondiston is a small village and civil parish in Suffolk, England located on the Shotley Peninsula, five miles south-east of Ipswich. The hamlet of Pin Mill lies within the parish on the south bank of the River Orwell. The village comprises approximately 500 dwellings and has a population of just over 1,000. It is one of the largest villages situated on the Shotley Peninsula. [2]
The etymology of the word Chelmondiston is perhaps ‘Ceolmund’s dwelling’. The parish contains a number of Bronze Age barrow sites. Chelmondiston and Pin Mill do not appear in the Domesday Book of 1086. [3] It was formerly known as Chelmington [4] and was located in the old hundred of Babergh. [5]
The original parish church of St. Andrew was described in 1865 as an "old, small, dilapidated edifice, with a square tower", [6] and it was subsequently rebuilt by architect Edward Charles Hakewill. On 10 December 1944, during World War II, a flying bomb hit Hakewill's church and it was almost completely destroyed. [7] In 1951, Basil Hatcher was commissioned to provide a replacement. The modern St. Andrew's church includes a set of stained glass windows made by Francis Skeat in the 1960s. [8] There is also a Methodist church on the Main Road and a Baptist church on Pin Mill Road.