Chelmondiston

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]

Chelmondiston

St. Andrews Church, Chelmondiston
Chelmondiston
Location within Suffolk
Population1,054 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceTM204372
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townIPSWICH
Postcode districtIP9
PoliceSuffolk
FireSuffolk
AmbulanceEast of England
UK Parliament

History

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]

Churches

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.

Notable residents

References
  1. "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  2. "Chelmondiston and Pin Mill Parish website". OneSuffolk. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
  3. "Pin Mill conservation area appraisal" (PDF). Babergh District Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  4. "The English Home of Mr. Timothy Dalton, Parish of Woolverstone". Privately printed, 1898. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
  5. "Relationships/unit history of Chelmondiston". A Vision of Britain through Time. Archived from the original on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
  6. "Post Office Directory of 1865". The History of Suffolk site. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  7. "Memories of Pin Mill - 7 December 2005". Eastern Daily Press. Archived from the original on 20 April 2013. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
  8. "St Andrew, Chelmondiston". Suffolk Churches. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
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