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For the church building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright see Unitarian Meeting House (Madison, Wisconsin)
Unitarian Meeting House, Ipswich | |
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OS grid reference | SJ 377 885 |
Denomination | Unitarian |
Website | Ipswich Unitarians |
Architecture | |
Functional status | Active |
Heritage designation | Grade I |
Designated | 1700 |
Unitarian Meeting House is a Grade I listed place of worship in Ipswich, Suffolk. It is a member of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, the umbrella organisation for British Unitarians.
The present building was opened by John Fairfax in 1700. Much of the original interior remains intact.
Name | Years | Name | Years |
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Owen Stockton | 1672-1680 | Joseph William Smith | 1866-1878 |
John Fairfax | 1680-1700 | Thomas Bennet Broadrick | 1879-1891 |
Samuel Baxter | 1701-1740 | William E. Atack | 1892-1895 |
William Shepherd | 1721-1724 | William Jellie | 1896-1899 |
Samuel Say | 1725-1734 | E. Lucking Tavener | 1900-1908 |
Thomas Scott | 1737-1766 | Arthur Golland | 1910-1914 |
Peter Emans | 1761-1762 | John W. Saunders | 1915-1920 |
Robert Lewin | 1762-1770 | Wilfred Harris | 1920-1923 |
William Wood | 1770-1773 | Wallace A. McCubbin | 1924-1929 |
James Pilkington | 1774-1778 | John Lewis | 1930-1936 |
William Jervis | 1778-1797 | Joseph C.G. Burton | 1938-1940 |
Samuel Parker | 1797-1803 | Winifred Brown | 1943-1946 |
Thomas Rees | 1803-1805 | Harold A. Gore | 1948-1949 |
Thomas Drummond | 1805-1813 | William Haworth | 1950-1952 |
Isaac Perry | 1813-1825 | A. Phillip B. Hewett | 1954-1956 |
John Philip | 1825-1827 | Nicholas John Teape | 1957-1974 |
Andrew Melville | 1827-1832 | Edward A. Cahill | 1975 |
Joseph Ketley | 1834-1836 | Robert H. Holmes | 1976 |
Thomas Felix Thomas | 1836-1852 | Clifford Martin Reed | 1976-2012 |
Henry Knott | 1852-1853 | David A. Robins | 1992 |
John T. Cooper | 1853-1863 | James S. Corrigall | 2012-2014 |
John Harrison | 1863-1864 | Lewis A. Connolly | 2016-2019 |
Coordinates: 52°03′20″N1°09′07″E / 52.05564°N 1.15186°E
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