Saint Mary at the Elms
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Saint Mary at the Elms is a Church of England
church in Ipswich
, England
.
It is a high Anglican Church and affiliated to Forward in Faith
. It houses the statue of Our Lady of Ipswich
. which is a copy of a statue in Nettuno that was originally in Ipswich
It was recently damaged by fire.
Church of England
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...
church in Ipswich
Ipswich
Ipswich is a large town and a non-metropolitan district. It is the county town of Suffolk, England. Ipswich is located on the estuary of the River Orwell...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
.
It is a high Anglican Church and affiliated to Forward in Faith
Forward in Faith
Forward in Faith is a movement operating in a number of provinces of the Anglican Communion. It represents a traditionalist strand of Anglo-Catholicism and is characterised by its opposition to the ordination of women to the priesthood and episcopate and, more recently, to more liberal Anglican...
. It houses the statue of Our Lady of Ipswich
Our Lady of Ipswich
Our Lady of Ipswich was a popular English Marian shrine before the English Reformation. Only the shrine at Walsingham attracted more visitors.-Location:The shrine was just outside the walls of Ipswich, Suffolk, England...
. which is a copy of a statue in Nettuno that was originally in Ipswich
It was recently damaged by fire.