The Ipswich Society organised a talk on Ipswich Dissenters in the Meeting House on Thursday 14th September
Ipswich Dissenters: Henry VIII’s excommunication in 1538 allowed him some independence from European neighbours, as well as other options in his search for a male heir. For subsequent Tudors, the consequences were a serious threat to both the nation and the rulers’ survival. Catholics, backed by European powers, struggled with protestant nationalists until a definition of a Church of England slowly evolved. This all had a profound effect on Ipswich, (including migration to the New World), before, during and after the bloodbath of the Civil War. How the Unitarians fit into this history is discussed.
The speaker is John Warren, the Treasurer of the Friends of Ipswich Unitarian Meeting House who was a hospital doctor who lived in Central London for 50 years. He retired to Ipswich to sail and garden. He is chair of the River Gipping Trust and on the committee of the Ipswich Maritime Trust.
The Ipswich Unitarian Meeting House is in Friars Street, Ipswich IP1 1TD (next to the black glass Willis building)
Friends of the Ipswich Unitarian Meeting House 