1887 - St Clement's Congregational Church - Back Hamlet - Ipswich, Suffolk - Dated Buildings and Cornerstones on Waymarking.com

"This is a red brick Victorian church of a decent size which many people seem not to have noticed. Its neighbour across Back Hamlet, Holy Trinity Church is somewhat more prominent by dint of its tower. Standing on the corner of Back Hamlet and Long Street the Congregational church is named after the Potteries/dockland area of St Clement's, which in turn is named after the parish served by the Church of St Clement, the Mariners' Church on Star Lane.

'IN MEMORIAM.
–
EDWARD GRIMWADE . J.P.
BORN AUG. 26. 1812, DIED NOV.25. 1886.
–
THIS STONE WAS LAID BY
E.W. GRIMWADE, OF CROYDON,
OCTOBER 26. 1887.
–
WILLIAM EADE. ARCHITECT.
IPSWICH.
F. BENNETT. BUILDER.
IPSWICH.'

St Clement's Congregational church is associated with one of the most famous Ipswich names, Grimwade. The Grimwades were a prosperous retail family with a large department store on the Cornhill and their fingers in a number of other pies. As is common with the urban capitalist families of East Anglia, they were dissenters - the offices on the top floor of the store were given over to the National Protestant League, who had a proud signage on to the Cornhill. In the 1860s, the Grimwades built the hall on the corner of Fore Hamlet and Back Hamlet, now converted to apartments as the GM Building, but known to an earlier generation of Gippeswykians as Grimwade Memorial Hall. It was used for assemblies of the congregation, but was soon too small for this purpose, and so in 1887 the grand church directly across the road was built, in the full confidence of late-Victorian non-conformism. The architect was William Eade, and the Hall was built as a memorial to Edward Grimwade, who had died the previous year."

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Year of construction: 1887 Cross-listed waymark: [Web Link] Full inscription: 'IN MEMORIAM. – EDWARD GRIMWADE . J.P. BORN AUG. 26. 1812, DIED NOV.25. 1886. – THIS STONE WAS LAID BY E.W. GRIMWADE, OF CROYDON, OCTOBER 26. 1887. – WILLIAM EADE. ARCHITECT. IPSWICH. F. BENNETT. BUILDER. IPSWICH.'

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