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United Reformed Church

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Location	:	Stowmarket, Mid Suffolk District, England
Coordinate	:	52.1869020, 0.9966670
Description	:	There has been a church on this site since 1719, when an Independent Meeting House was completed by Robert Pett. According to the church web site it then went through a troubled period before the ordination of William Ward in 1805, when he began a 41 year long pastorate. It was during this time that the church was altered out of all recognition and grew to become one of the strongest in Suffolk. In 1855 the church affiliated to the Congregational Union of England and Wales and in 1861 it was demolished for a new Chapel built during the ministry... Read More	There has been a church on this site since 1719, when an Independent Meeting House was completed by Robert Pett. According to the church web site it then went through a troubled period before the ordination of William Ward in 1805, when he began a 41 year long pastorate. It was during this time that the church was altered out of all recognition and grew to become one of the strongest in Suffolk. In 1855 the church affiliated to the Congregational Union of England and Wales and in 1861 it was demolished for a new Chapel built during the ministry of Jonah Reeve. By 1884, when Luther Caws was ordained as minister, the church roll contained 550 names and the Sunday school numbered 1200 children, including country branches in local villages. Luther Caws retired in 1896 due to ill health. In 1941 the church was completely destroyed in an air raid by a lone German bomber. A large cross was erected on the cleared site and services were held in the Regal Cinema. Fourteen years later, in 1955, a new church building in contemporary style was opened and dedicated. In the years following the induction of Edmund Banyard (1856) as minister, the Fison Hall was added to the building together with Centre Three, a modern youth centre. It is known that the church originally had a graveyard and that some bodies were subsequently reburied in Stowmarket cemetery. This was possibly because new burials there ceased and families wanted all their relatives to be close to each other. Apart from the two grave headstones located by the front wall of the church, the only other evidence of burials is a list of Monumental Inscriptions that is thought to have been made in the early 1900s, and a plaque in the church that lists the name of some people who were reburied under the church in 1953. Unfortunately it is not known if there are also others beneath the church, but at present no documents can currently be found to prove the reburial of people known to have originally been buried there. In 1973 the church became part of the United Reformed Church following the coming together of the Congregational Church of England and Wales and the Presbyterian Church of England a year earlier.

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Saint Peter and Saint Mary Churchyard
Stowmarket, Mid Suffolk District, England
Coordinate: 52.1881820, 0.9967600

2. Old Stowmarket Cemetery
Stowmarket, Mid Suffolk District, England
Coordinate: 52.1948000, 0.9923500

3. New Stowmarket Cemetery
Stowmarket, Mid Suffolk District, England
Coordinate: 52.1948100, 0.9890740

4. St Mary Churchyard
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Coordinate: 52.1729800, 0.9979300

5. Combs Parish Cemetery
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Coordinate: 52.1714740, 0.9960700

6. Stowupland Cemetery
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Coordinate: 52.1987389, 1.0293667

7. Holy Trinity Churchyard
Stowupland, Mid Suffolk District, England
Coordinate: 52.1999210, 1.0306050

8. St. Mary's Churchyard
Badley, Mid Suffolk District, England
Coordinate: 52.1629868, 1.0140250

9. St Peter's Churchyard
Creeting St Peter, Mid Suffolk District, England
Coordinate: 52.1782700, 1.0418800

10. St John the Baptist Churchyard
Onehouse, Mid Suffolk District, England
Coordinate: 52.1956290, 0.9495420

11. St. Augustine's Church Burial Ground
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Coordinate: 52.2045920, 0.9526440

12. St. Andrew's Churchyard
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Coordinate: 52.1829290, 0.9439440

13. Old Newton Cemetery
Old Newton, Mid Suffolk District, England
Coordinate: 52.2213520, 1.0127410

14. St. Mary's Churchyard
Old Newton, Mid Suffolk District, England
Coordinate: 52.2216380, 1.0143500

15. St. Mary's Churchyard
Battisford, Mid Suffolk District, England
Coordinate: 52.1493660, 1.0021970

16. Battisford Cemetery
Battisford, Mid Suffolk District, England
Coordinate: 52.1491260, 1.0013920

17. St. Mary the Virgin's Church
Haughley, Mid Suffolk District, England
Coordinate: 52.2215800, 0.9647260

18. St. Mary's Churchyard
Little Finborough, Mid Suffolk District, England
Coordinate: 52.1561070, 0.9495790

19. Saint Mary's Churchyard
Buxhall, Mid Suffolk District, England
Coordinate: 52.1803740, 0.9283610

20. Saint Mary's Churchyard
Creeting St Mary, Mid Suffolk District, England
Coordinate: 52.1686000, 1.0591500

21. King Charles the Martyr Churchyard
Shelland, Mid Suffolk District, England
Coordinate: 52.2039070, 0.9307170

22. Saint John The Baptist Burial Ground
Needham Market, Mid Suffolk District, England
Coordinate: 52.1533800, 1.0438900

23. St Mary Churchyard
Barking, Mid Suffolk District, England
Coordinate: 52.1416550, 1.0333390

24. St. Catherine's Churchyard
Ringshall, Mid Suffolk District, England
Coordinate: 52.1365910, 0.9840370

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