St Mary at the Elms - Ipswich, Suffolk, England
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N 52° 03.421 E 001° 09.003
31U E 373166 N 5768994
St Mary's is on Elm Street in the business centre of Ipswich
Waymark Code: WMNDZZ
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/24/2015
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"Often known simply as St Mary Elms, this church on Elm Street may have been built on the site of an older church called St Saviour’s. The church doorway is thought to date from as far back as the eleventh century, whilst some of the bricks intended for Wolsey’s Cardinal College of St Mary were used in the rebuilding of this church after the Cardinal’s fall from favour in 1529. The church today contains the rededicated Shrine of Our Lady of Grace. The row of cottages behind this church are thought to be the oldest buildings in Ipswich, whilst situated at the front of the church is a modern bronze statue of a girl sitting cross-legged handling a ball of clay. Named ‘Tam’, the sculpture was created by Honoria Surie."
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