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This
is a large village with the benfit of its own
railway station, and always seems to have a busy
life of its own when I cycle through. This
functional tin tabernacle sits on the road to
Great Ashfield, and is significant because it is
one of the last tin tabernacle churches left in
East Anglia. The Holly Lodge Baptist Church in
Ipswich was demolished last year. There are a
handful of others; but, of course, we don't build
them any more, and we will miss them when they
are all gone. The Baptists have long
since been the most important non-conformist
Church in Suffolk, but at the time of the 1851
census of Religious Worship they did not have a
presence in this parish. It would be interesting
to know something of the history of this
particular community. Judging by their website,
they appear to be from the liberal strand of the
Baptist tradition, unlike their fellows at nearby
Wetherden, and they certainly seem to be busy, if
their noticeboard is anything to go by.
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